Bill Benson
bensonforums at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 20:41:41 CST 2015
What really, really, really sucks is that after I had painstakingly went and re-added all buttons on every form, set their onClick events, etc... substituting for the old buttons - my database had some kind of corruption and I had to start a new database, importing all objects from that one. Naturally, the nice formatting that came along with adding a button did *not* come with... I think I will leave the default styles from now on. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:59 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] buttons created with wizard look different To wiz or not to wiz, That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous syntax Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, EndIf them? To die, to call the Sleep command... and so on. Bill Shakespeare said it all long before our times. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the confirmation Charlotte! > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto: > accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:31 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] buttons created with wizard look different > > Yes, I discovered this when copying buttons from databases built in > earlier versions. The formats are saved with the buttons. > > Charlotte > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > OK, live and learn - it is not control wizard or not control wizard... > > it is buttons made before I up-published the database to Ac2007 > > version versus those created afterwards. Something must have changed > > in the re-save process. Nice to know I don't need the control wizard > > after all, I just have to remake the command buttons. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bill Benson [mailto:bensonforums at gmail.com] > > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:20 PM > > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > > Subject: buttons created with wizard look different > > > > The buttons I create on my form with the control wizard have a more > > gradient fill look to them (which I prefer) compared with the > > buttons created without them. But I have combed over all the > > properties between the two types and I cannot seem to be able to > > make the ones that I have manually created look nice like the ones made by the wizard. > > > > I have even ctrl-clicked both and looked at all the properties which > > are not the same in value - things like height, width, top, left, > > hyperlink address, etc - none of which are relevant to the look of > > the button. I would have thought things like backcolor... > > > > There is this one setting called "Picture Type" which says embedded > > for both, but I don’t think that is it. > > > > I am going to go back and recreate all of them with the wizard - but > > in future, I would like to know what it is about the wizard that is > > causing different styled command buttons to be created than the ones > > I create without. > > > > Anyone? > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com