[AccessD] Table naming conventions

John Colby jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com
Thu Mar 2 22:21:01 CST 2006


>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.

I'm not following you on this one.  Can you give an example?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
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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
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>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 


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:55 PM
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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 


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