[AccessD] Ribbon context

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin2 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 12:04:48 CST 2022


I know. Sensible <> Fun.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:02 AM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> That might be the sensible thing to do. But adding pizazz is sometimes
> appreciated.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 25, 2022, at 11:58 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Then if it ain't broke...
> >
> > Perhaps you just need to trap that error (on error goto)...) and give a
> > friendlier message.
> >
> > r
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:48 AM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh to clarify, there are several forms that could use the contextual
> >> enable/disable (the forms most users use, not the outliers/seldom used,
> >> etc).
> >>
> >> I need to ponder more on this I guess.   Right now the ribbon works, you
> >> can just press buttons that throw errors because your back end
> permissions
> >> basically block you from performing the button action.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:30 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> If you can disable the button with a line of code and it is needed in a
> >>> dozen forms, then I would take the brute force method - put that
> disable
> >>> line of code in the open event and put the enable line of code in the
> >> Close
> >>> event.
> >>>
> >>> Unless you're saying that ANY form MIGHT need the button depending on
> >> some
> >>> condition. In which case you could still do it with a line of code in
> >> each
> >>> form calling a public function that would return True/False for
> >>> disabling the delete button.
> >>>
> >>> Unless each form that MIGHT need to have its delete button disabled
> would
> >>> have differing conditions.  In which case...
> >>>
> >>> r
> >>>
> >>>
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