[AccessD] Shortcuts Again

John W. Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 06:14:10 CST 2015


 >How's that little boy? Not so little any more I'll wager.

He's a young man now.  He'll be 14 next month.

John W. Colby

On 2/22/2015 1:45 AM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I failed.  :)  Actually I happened into a couple of interesting gigs last
> year so that gives me the illusion of productivity.
>
> And the guy that acquired my system sells it to people who need custom mods
> or data converted - stuff like that.
>
> It's all good - I get more cycling time and play more music. And the climate
> is benign.  No complaints.
>
> How's that little boy?  Not so little any more I'll wager.
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:00 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Shortcuts Again
>
> It did sound like a run time substitution of some sort.
>
> I thought you had retired.
>
> John W. Colby
>
> On 2/21/2015 2:30 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
>> Never mind.  I figured it out.  It wasn't Access - it was me.
>>
>> You see for this app, which is distributed, I have language tables
>> with all the control captions and message boxes so I can do
>> translations on the fly and it's easy to add a new language.
>>
>> So the translation for the command button Sales orders is &Sales
>> Orders.  It doesn't matter what I put in the for, the caption on the
>> button is going to be replaced by what's in the table.  Which is...wait
> for it...&Sales Orders.
>> Of all the things I considered as to why the shortcut was reverting
>> back to S, I forgot about the translation.
>>
>> Oh well, time to retire...
>>
>> Rocky Smolin
>> Beach Access Software
>> 858-259-4334
>> www.bchacc.com
>> www.e-z-mrp.com
>> Skype: rocky.smolin
>>    
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky
>> Smolin
>> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 11:13 AM
>> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>> Subject: [AccessD] Shortcuts Again
>>
>> Dear List:
>>    
>> I had a problem with two shortcuts on a menu having the same letter - S.
>> When I look at it in design view the shortcuts are different - G and O.
>> When I go back to form view they revert to S.
>>    
>> I tried the Save an text and Load from text trick.  Starting with a
>> form with & in front of the S in both command buttons, I export to
>> text, change the ampersands to G and O. Then Load from text.  In
>> design view, AOK.  Form view - they revert to S underlined.
>>    
>> So, I'm totally stumped.  What to do?
>>    
>> MTIA
>>    
>> Rocky Smolin
>> Beach Access Software
>> 858-259-4334
>> www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> www.e-z-mrp.com
>> <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/>
>> Skype: rocky.smolin
>>    
>>    
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