[AccessD] Find First in an Array? - The Solution Revisited -Now Tag is the Answer

Max,

Forms also have custom properties IIRC, and that would be the place to do what you are thinking of 
doing.  The form's custom properties work beautifully, and you could use the form's properties 
custom properties to store the info about controls on that form.

It was about 10 years ago when I last looked at them but I remember thinking what a cool tool.  They 
are "well hidden" and so you can place security info in them (what I was using them for) and make it 
almost impossible for a hacker to find.

IIRC they do have the issue of having to be set in design and then saved to make them "permanent" 
but if you have that ability then there they are.

Keep thinking laterally!

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Denis Sherman wrote:
>>> 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!
> 
> However, I was just playing around with user-defined-properties in the mdb
> properties itself - for storing these multi-value strings each
> formname+controlname to have its own user defined property name with the
> value being the multi-value language string.  Worked beautifully apart from
> the limitation around the 64K size mark.
> 
> I have another plan - just thinking it through laterally first!
> 
> Max