[AccessD] Gantt chart in Access

I seem to recall you could use wingdings for the same purpose.

Charlotte Foust

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 9:35 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Gantt chart in Access

...quite true, but my install takes care of that ...the disadvantage of 
Courier New is that it has a very limited box selection and they are not 
full size ...use it in a text box and you will see a narrow line in the 
background color at the top ...LABOX otoh has a very wide selection of full 
sized boxes in a well designed combination of standardized widths, as well 
as different sized heights/widths, that make it ideal for gantt type 
displays ...install it and take a look at the difference.

William

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From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:35 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Gantt chart in Access

> The advantage of using Courier New is that it is a standard Windows font. 
> You don't need to
> worry about installing extra fonts on every machine that will use 
> application.
>
> -- 
> Stuart
>
> On 8 Feb 2010 at 20:48, William Hindman wrote:
>
>> http://www.mvps.org/access/forms/frm0055.htm has a much better font for 
>> this
>> than Courier New
>>
>> ...but I will certainly give your code a spin ...thanks :)
>>
>> William
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
>> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:09 PM
>> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
>> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Gantt chart in Access
>>
>> > Of course! <slaps self on forehead>
>> >
>> > Just use a block character with a fixed width font in a text string:
>> >
>> > Create a stack of text boxes each of which runs across the full form.
>> > Set the font to Courier New (a fixed width, unicode font).
>> > Set the font colours of the textboxes to different values if you want
>> > different coloured lines.
>> >
>> > Create the following function.
>> >
>> > Function Plot(startpos As Long, endpos As Long) As String
>> >  If Nz(startpos) < 1 Then Exit Function
>> >  If Nz(endpos) < 1 Then Exit Function
>> >  If endpos < startpos Then Exit Function
>> >  Plot = IIf(startpos > 1, Space$(startpos - 1), "") & String$(endpos -
>> > startpos + 1,
>> > ChrW(&H2588))
>> > End Function
>> >
>> > To display a line running from Day 3 to Day 5 in the first row:
>> >  txtLine1 = Plot(3,5)
>> >
>> > You can also use the shaded unicode characters
>> > &H2591 - &H2593 to get more variety.
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > Stuart
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8 Feb 2010 at 14:04, Susan Harkins wrote:
>> >
>> >> William, I am so sorry... years ago I wrote about this in Inside
>> >> Microsoft
>> >> Access. Those old issues are packed up in my daughter's basement and
>> >> they're
>> >> not online, as far as I know. I did a google search, just in case. :(
>> >>
>> >> AIR...it was an extremely simple formula using Chr() -- I just don't
>> >> remember how I repeated that function that appropriate number of 
>> >> times.
>> >> It
>> >> was... as you and JC would put it... dead simple.
>> >>
>> >> If anyone has access to those old issues of IMA, maybe they might look 
>> >> it
>> >> up -- would've been pre 1998.
>> >>
>> >> Susan H.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Charlotte
>> >> >
>> >> > ...that remains an option but I generally don't like embedded 
>> >> > reports
>> >> > in
>> >> > runtime installs ...not just the appearance of them but they're 
>> >> > fragile
>> >> > as
>> >> > well ime ...but I'm not dismissing it if I can't come up with a form
>> >> > approach that works.
>> >> >
>> >> > William
>> >>
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