jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Jun 20 20:14:27 CDT 2011
I would argue it isn't difficult to use classes, such as they are. You can still do many useful things with them. Like a message class to send messages around an application. ;) John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 6/20/2011 8:23 PM, Charlotte Foust wrote: > In vb.net, this is the standard and expected way of doing things. It allows > the various pieces to be black boxes that do something when they receive a > signal. If you need another black box to do something on the same signal, > you sink the same event in the second black box. You don't have to change > the code that raises the event. It just raises it hand and waves, and any > black boxes that are listening do their thing. If there are no listeners, > the hand gets some exercise but nothing else results. Access (thank you > Microsoft) lets us be sloppy and not learn to use classes effectively. In > fact, it makes it relatively difficult to use classes except for the built > in object classes, and even those hide much of their inner workings. > > Charlotte Foust > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Stuart McLachlan<stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote: > >> So instead of having all of your code encapsulated in one place (the >> list_modified event), you >> have it scattered all over your apllication? Sounds like a maintenance >> nightmare to me. >> >> -- >> Stuart >> >> On 20 Jun 2011 at 14:55, jwcolby wrote: >> >>> In my case, each and every recipient needs to do something different >>> but similar. Requery something. A pair of lists in one form, a >>> different combo in each of two other forms. The sender just says "I >>> modified the list of cities". The recipients says "OK, I need to do >>> this thing when the list of cities changes" and then does that thing. >>> >>> >>> >>> John W. Colby >>> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> >> >>> >>> On 6/20/2011 11:06 AM, Dan Waters wrote: >>>> Hi John, >>> > For a separate form, first determine if the form is open: >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> >> >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> >> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >>