[AccessD] Table naming conventions

But you also use the dot operator to refer to members of a collection,
and the controls are members of the parent object's controls collection.
;o>

Charlotte Foust


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Table naming conventions


>Using Dot to refer to properties is known to cause weirdnesses.

Ooops.  Using Dot to refer to Objects can cause weirdnesses.

Sorry for the confusion.

I can think of at least one exception (kind of) however.  To refer to a
control on a subform, the syntax is me!SubformControl.Subform!Control.
In this case I think that .Subform is a PROPERTY of the subformControl
which returns a pointer to an object (the actual loaded subform).  So
even here Dot is the correct syntax.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:55 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Table naming conventions

LOL, because it is the wrong syntax and can cause the vba interpreter to
get confused and do stupid things.  In the early days of Access,
me.object was the accepted syntax.  Sometime around A97 Microsoft
switched to the ! As the "accepted" syntax.  Dot is for properties, Bang
is for objects.  Using Dot to refer to properties is known to cause
weirdnesses.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com