Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Tue Feb 10 15:11:14 CST 2009
I'll try anything at this point. Thanks. Can you send it to rockysmolin at bchacc.com? Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David McAfee Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:09 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2007 - Programmatically Minimize Ribbon 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 > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com