[AccessD] Ethical or not...

?Mark,

Yes I have a test to see if the MDE is being opened in version 12 or 14 and 
turn of built in menus and the ribbon, as I use regular office menu's for 
everything.

Also I have found some forms for opening reports and set some pubic 
variables in the form and get the info from the report using 
forms!formname.variable.  This works fine in 2003 but will not work in 2010, 
so I Remove the public variables and either create hidden text boxes with 
the same name or write public functions to gather the information. I also 
learned that objects in the footer of the report can not see public 
variables in the open event of the report so again needed to create a pubic 
function in a module to solve this problem. I create these kinds of 
solutions because my clients are using 2003 and 2007 and 2010, so I ship 
mdb's or mde's created in 2003.

Another interesting note is that trying to set the value in a text box in 
the open event of a report will not work but 2010 has a load event and it 
will set the value there. I can't use that because 2003 does not have a load 
event, so another public function fixed it.

HTH

Bill
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From: "Mark Simms" <marksimms at verizon.net>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 6:30 PM
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ethical or not...

Bill - thanks for that....but the 2003 MDE running under 2007 would still
need logic to handle situations specific to the running release, correct ?
For instance...code to turn off the ribbon ........, code to turn on the
ribbon for reports....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 6:39 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ethical or not...
>
> ?Doug and Mark,
>
> I have found that a 2003 MDE will run in Access 2003, 2007
> and 2010 but it will not work the other way, a later mde will
> not run in an older version of Access. Like an MDE compiled
> (created?) in 2010 will not open in the older versions of access.
>
> Bill


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