[AccessD] Advice on A2010....

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 15:31:44 CST 2011


Amen, Ken.  I used to have code to build forms using a code library and
some templates.  It was a complicated operation and took me forever to make
it work, and I discovered that doing it by hand was easier.

Charlotte Foust

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Kenneth Ismert <kismert at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Mark Simms
> > Is there some VBA to do this ?
> >
> > > all you can do is create a new form and then copy controls into it.
> >
>
> Yes, I developed just such a product. It copies all controls and form
> properties over, and all properties for each control, rebuilding the form
> from scratch. It worked perfectly.
>
> Doing a half-assed version in VBA is not so hard. Doing it right is really,
> really involved. You are really better off doing it by hand.
>
> The kicker is I did this when I worked for another company, and they own
> the rights to the code, so I can't distribute it. Maybe one day I will make
> the case for them to BSD-license it.
>
> -Ken
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