David McAfee
davidmcafee at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 15:08:37 CST 2009
Rocky, want to try my sample out and see if it works on your box? On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:10 PM, William Hindman <wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote: > "truly annoying to developers" jc > > ...they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams :( > > William > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:27 PM > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2007 - Programmatically Minimize Ribbon > >> > Any ideas what's going on? >> >> Simple really, MS is DAMNED PROUD of their ribbon and is making sure that >> you see it! They spent >> several million dollars on usability studies to make sure that the ribbon >> was useful to power users >> and spent about another 10 million or so to make sure that it was truly >> annoying to developers, and >> they aren't about to let their investment slip through their fingers! >> >> John W. Colby >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> >> >> Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software wrote: >>> Stuart: >>> >>> Well, dang. It doesn't work. I put Call MinimizeRibbon in the _Open >>> event, >>> but the ribbon ended up maximized anyway. SO I moved it right at the >>> end >>> of the _Open event on the theory that maybe some of the housekeeping >>> (resizing the form, maximizing the form, etc.) was affecting the ribbon. >>> But no soap. >>> >>> So I moved it to the _Activate event. Same result. So I put MsgBox >>> RibbonMinimized in the RibbonMinimized Function to see what the value was >>> on >>> the call. With the Call to MinimizeRibbon in the Activate event, it gets >>> called 3 times. Each time the value of RibbonMinimized is True and the >>> ribbon is indeed minimized. >>> >>> Then right at the end of the opening process, the ribbon re-appears. >>> >>> Ctrl-F1 from the keyboard toggles the ribbon nicely. And the code looks >>> like it should work. And I stepped through it just to see what it was >>> doing. >>> >>> Any ideas what's going on? >>> >>> >>> Rocky Smolin >>> Beach Access Software >>> 858-259-4334 >>> www.e-z-mrp.com >>> www.bchacc.com >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >