William Benson (VBACreations.Com)
vbacreations at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 20:27:08 CDT 2011
Going back to the original inquiry. John's right, class modules are the way to go. Assumptions: Tag property on all controls which can contain a time value = "Time Values" I have an additional textbox on my form with controlsource = "= HighestValue()" -- that is a public function -- see below 'IN THE FORM'S CODE MODULE Option Compare Database Option Explicit Dim colTimeValueControls As New Collection Dim MyclsSeriesItem As clsTimeSeriesItem Private Sub Form_Load() Dim Ctrl As Control Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max = 0 Glob_Str_Which_Control_Has_Max = "" For Each Ctrl In Me.Controls If ControlIsTimeValue(Ctrl, TimeValueTag) Then Set MyclsSeriesItem = New clsTimeSeriesItem Set MyclsSeriesItem.Txt = Ctrl MyclsSeriesItem.Txt.AfterUpdate = "[Event Procedure]" colTimeValueControls.Add MyclsSeriesItem End If Next End Sub 'IN A Class Module named clsTimeSeriesItem Option Compare Database Option Explicit Public WithEvents aTxt As Access.TextBox Private Sub aTxt_AfterUpdate() Dim bTestAllControls As Boolean Dim Ctrl As Control bTestAllControls = False If IsNumeric(aTxt.Value) Then If CDbl(Nz(aTxt.Value, 0)) >= Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max Then Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max = CDbl(aTxt.Value) Glob_Str_Which_Control_Has_Max = aTxt.Name ElseIf Glob_Str_Which_Control_Has_Max <> aTxt.Name Then 'DO NOTHING, some other control has the max value anyway Else 'It is numeric, it was the max, and it no longer is as high as the max was bTestAllControls = True End If ElseIf Glob_Str_Which_Control_Has_Max = aTxt.Name Then bTestAllControls = True Else 'We don't care if it went non-numeric, it didn't hold the max value prior to now End If If bTestAllControls Then Glob_Str_Which_Control_Has_Max = "" Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max = 0 For Each Ctrl In aTxt.Parent.Controls If ControlIsTimeValue(Ctrl, TimeValueTag) Then If IsNumeric(Nz(Ctrl.Value, "")) Then If CDbl(Nz(Ctrl.Value, 0)) > Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max Then Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max = CDbl(Nz(Ctrl.Value, 0)) Glob_Str_Which_Control_Has_Max = Ctrl.Name End If End If End If Next End If For Each Ctrl In aTxt.Parent.Controls If TypeOf Ctrl Is Access.TextBox Then If Ctrl.Tag = "Max Time Value" Then Ctrl.Requery Exit For End If End If Next End Sub Public Property Set Txt(ByVal ControlThatChanged As Control) If TypeOf ControlThatChanged Is Access.TextBox Then Set aTxt = ControlThatChanged End If End Property Public Property Get Txt() As Access.TextBox If Not aTxt Is Nothing Then Set Txt = aTxt End If End Property 'IN A STANDARD MODULE Public Glob_Str_Which_Control_Has_Max As String Public Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max As Double Public Function TimeValueTag() As String TimeValueTag = "Time Values" End Function Public Function ControlIsTimeValue(Ctrl As Control, strTagToLookFor As String) As Boolean If TypeOf Ctrl Is Access.TextBox Then ControlIsTimeValue = (Ctrl.Tag = strTagToLookFor) End If End Function Public Function HighestValue() HighestValue = Glob_Dbl_What_Is_Current_Max End Function