David McAfee
davidmcafee at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 16:10:39 CST 2009
Sent. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >