[AccessD] I just gotta vent

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 14:22:37 CST 2013


License to vent my friend, license to vent!

On 12/13/2013 3:20 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
> 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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