[AccessD] Kicking and screaming

Jim,

That's what we did at Infostat as well in our Access apps, but as later
versions of Windows came along and IT departments locked down the registry,
we occasionally has issues.

Charlotte

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Ha, SysVars are nothing new.
>
> I have been working with a legacy Informix application (20+ years old) and
> once you have pushed a variable up into memory they are there until you
> leave the environment completely...very handy at times as you move from
> module to module or even from program to program or more likely crashing
> while doing development work. There is even an option that allows protected
> variables to be pushed to the computers stack...but this doesn't work on
> the
> newer computers with their fancy new-fangled multi-core CPUs
>
> I have always, when working with VB, pushed and retrieved variables out of
> the system register. They are then totally protected until a system
> re-imaging and even then can be pulled from backup. Somewhere, I have a
> little piece of code I used with Access to perform similar efforts.
>
> It is nice to hear that MS Access is finally catching up. :-)
>
> PS: Good to hear you are doing OK.
>
> Jim
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] Kicking and screaming
>
> OK, I am immersed in Access 2007 now.  Sigh.
>
> Aaahhhhooooooommmmmm this is what I do for a living.
> Aaahhhhooooooommmmmm this is what I do for a living.
> Aaahhhhooooooommmmmm this is what I do for a living.
>
> Now that I am centered again... I have heard that Access now has built-in
> what I have always called
> SysVars and programmed a solution for, a table / code for system variables
> which need to be stored
> in a table and loaded at startup.  Is this true?  Where do I find
> documentation on using it?
>
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