[AccessD] I just gotta vent

Hey John
Come on old one, we have known for years (since 1998) if you go up and
search out ACCESS errors the list will totally dumbfound you.

Tony Septav
Nanaimo, BC
Canada




-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: December-13-13 2:12 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] I just gotta vent

Shamil,

Thanks for validating the bug.  I am using Windows 7 and Access 2007.

Which tells me that they haven't decided that bugs are an important 
thing to work on, even in 2013.

Yes, on abandoning.

OTOH I have a job (for IBM no less) maintaining Access databases.  I am 
not allowed to "abandon" them.  ;)

On 12/13/2013 3:05 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
>   Hi John --
>
> I didn't know about this bug, sorry.
>
> Just out of curiosity I have:
>
> - created a bound test form,
> - set its recordsource to filter out all records (ID = -1);
> - set AllowAdditions = False;
> - created a search textbox named txtSearch in the form's header;
> - created a search value copy textbox named txtCopy in the form's header;
> - set OnChange event procedure to
>
> Private Sub txtSearch_Change()
>      txtCopy.Value = txtSearch.Text
> End Sub
>
> - opened test form in Normal view and typed a char in txtCopy  textbox -
*bang*
>
> 2185 - You can't reference a property or method for a control unless the
control has the focus.
>
> In my test I have used Win8 and MS Access 2013.
>
> There seems to be no effective workaround of this bug.
>
> This is a typical bug case one of many others, which forced me to abandon
MS Access/VBA development.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Shamil
>

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