[AccessD] A blast from the past

[jack drawbridge]

John,
Time certainly flies by! Always interested in your posts and class
info/references.
A question for you.
Is there any news on the following? I'm sure it would be well received. So
little expertise and depth(advocacy) on Access classes and their practical
usage - and nothing on  related framework.





*Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 2:25 PM John Colby wrote: Trying to figure out OBS to
make a YouTube video using screen capture and a mic. Well, the plan is for
a lecture series.  Maybe eventually a livestream if anyone is interested.*

Jack

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 8:19 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am also using the message class found in the blogs (with a new message
> type) to raise an event, passing four pieces of data to a form with a list
> box.  So in many different places in my code, functions in various
> different classes, I can raise the same event and have it received (an
> event sink) by the form, inserting 4 columns of data from the event into a
> list control for displaying status as the system does stuff.  I raise these
> events when receiving emails from Outlook, processing a database for each
> client that is buying the database, cleaning out tables and inserting
> client specific data, setting up properties etc. ATM it is just a way for
> me to watch the code run from my control form.  It is quite a cool use for
> the message class.
>
> The nice part of using events in this manner is that I can test the various
> classes without the form even loaded, raising a status message event
> wherever I want to, but if the form is open, then the events are sunk and
> the data placed into the list control.  I can also sink the same exact
> events in a log class and log the data in the messages into a log table.
> Or sink the events in an email class and send an email.  IOW these events
> can be sunk in many different places and have different things done with
> them based on the class that is sinking the events.
>
> Pretty handy stuff.
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 4:21 AM Gustav Brock via AccessD <
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi John
> >
> > From time to time, I still refer to your articles when questions are
> about
> > classes and WithEvents.
> > There is so little written about these topics of VBA.
> >
> > /gustav
> >
> > Fra: John Colby<mailto:jwcolby at gmail.com>
> > Sendt: 29. oktober 2021 23:47
> > Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving<mailto:
> > accessd at databaseadvisors.com>; John W Colby<mailto:jwcolby at gmail.com>
> > Emne: [AccessD] A blast from the past
> >
> > Blog about classes
> >
> >
> >
> http://jwcolby.blogspot.com/2013/02/microsoft-access-little-secret-classes.html?view=sidebar
> >
> > LOL, look at the date on that.  How time flies!
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