William Hindman
wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Tue Feb 24 17:51:16 CST 2009
...will you guys get a room already!!!!! William -------------------------------------------------- From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:24 PM To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Find First in an Array? - The Solution Revisited -Now Tag is the Answer > Now Drew... > > Storing the world in a single value property > A limit of 2K total storage > Can be used by anybody (including some folks with no business programming) > Who knows what might be trying to read / write this single value property > Can build a replacement in minutes > > > I'm not saying that using the .Tag property would be bad. > > No guts at all Drew. > > 8-) > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > Drew Wutka wrote: >> Not quite. >> >> 1. Need to have multiple values for a single value property for the >> controls. >> >> 2. There is a generic property (limited to 2048 characters, by the >> way), which can be used for anything...and can be used by anything. But >> using it for multiple purposes gets to be very hairy! >> >> 3. It took me less then 30 minutes to build a completely new system >> that does the same thing, just as fast, and it is event enabled (ie, >> changing the language on the fly updates ALL visible forms (and I'm >> assuming reports...) to the new language. Something you can't do as >> easily with the Tag. >> >> I'm not saying that using the .Tag property would be bad. I just think >> a class/collection method is better. >> >> Drew >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart >> McLachlan >> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:27 PM >> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Find First in an Array? - The Solution Revisited >> -Now Tag is the Answer >> >> So let me get this clear. Your argument is: >> >> 1. I need to store a string value for each control. >> >> 2. Controls has been designed with a property specifically for this >> purpose. >> >> 3. I won't use the property in case I need to use it for something else >> later on, instead I will >> build a complete new system which will allow me to do all sorts of neat >> things with controls >> in case I need to in the future. >> >> May I refer you to Shamil's posting last Friday in this thread? >> >> <quote> >> May I warn you about what is known as: >> "Premature Optimization" >> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization >> and >> "Premature Generalization" >> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureGeneralizationIsEvil >> Have a look: >> "Death by premature generalization" >> http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/04/30/570.aspx >> </quote> >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >