[AccessD] ACCESS Left Behind

Tony Septav TSeptav at Uniserve.com
Thu Jan 22 11:14:43 CST 2015


Hey All
You may think I am the cranky old guy but...... I truly did love ACCESS in
it's heyday. I produced many vibrant applications with ACCESS that were
before their time. I still think (Yes I can hear you say Cry me a river) MS
let (with each new release) the developers down and I really cannot get away
from that. OK I know "Shut Up you old man" and I now will. I guess we cannot
continue to cry over spilt milk.

Tony Septav
Nanaimo, BC
Canada

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
Sent: January-22-15 7:03 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ah Ah Yes - Printing to PDF on 64 Bit


 Yeah, that's one thing that has always driven me nuts with MS; they never
go back and fix anything in a prior release.

 My take is, if you produce a product with a given feature set, that feature
set should work.   New features should drive new releases, not the fact that
you need to get a fix for what your currently on.

 But the whole thing is shifting anyway with the advent of the subscription
model.  And if any of you aren't keeping up, Windows will now be the same
way:

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/01/21/the-next-generation-of-w
indows-windows-10/

  Watch the video presentation at http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/

Jim. 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 08:11 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ah Ah Yes - Printing to PDF on 64 Bit


Hey All
Not wanting to repeat myself. But ACCESS requires workarounds of workarounds
of workarounds. What happened to the good old days. MS Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Tony Septav
Nanaimo, BC
Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bob Walsh
Sent: January-21-15 4:43 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Printing to PDF on 64 Bit

This is also an issue on Access 2010. I had the same issue two weeks ago.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:49 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Printing to PDF on 64 Bit

This one case so perfectly depicts why it's so brutally difficult to create
solutions using Access or any Microsoft Office component that is VBA-driven:
You've GOT to use compiler directives to effectively handle all of the
variances and exceptions for the various releases.

#IF ACCESS2013 Then
#ELSE
#END IF

>
>         DoCmd.OpenReport "rptSurvey", acPreview, , , acHidden
>         DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, "rptSurvey",
> "PDFFormat(*.pdf)", strFullName, False, "", , acExportQualityPrint
>         DoCmd.Close acReport, "rptSurvey", acSaveNo
>


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