[AccessD] My latest bright idea, take two.

[jack drawbridge]

John,

I still think you could/should pursue youtube. Nobody has anything along
the lines of your framework and classes experience. And, as you say - most
of the access developers are pretty much oblivious to this side of things.😂
jack

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 9:04 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill,  You assume too much!😁
>
> The answer to your questions is no, I was driving down the road last night
> blue skying.  I want to write a book.  I want to create a database that can
> be built from scratch as the book evolves to demo the code in the book.  I
> know just enough to be dangerous.
>
> 🤕And so I am dangerous.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 7:57 AM Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This sounds like so much fun, if my eyes were not putting me on short
> > term disability, I would love to work with you on this project John!
> >
> > You are trying to get this to work on your hard drive alone, before
> > attempting to move it to the web I hope? I think you are counting on
> quite
> > a lot going right, if you expect objects to get built by the user
> clicking
> > macro buttons that will make calls to web functions that will download
> text
> > files then run LoadFromText.
> >
> > Here are some considerations I had, without knowing anywhere near as much
> > as yourself:
> >
> > * Will VBA wait to run the LoadFromText command, until the web command to
> > download the text file is completed (i.e., are they synchronous?)
> > * Forms will need to be saved and closed before they can be re-built
> using
> > LoadFromText, right?
> > * From what I recall, I needed to save new form modules after using
> > LoadFromText directly in the VBE, and there was no way to save them
> > silently, the Save command caused there to be popup prompts to save each
> > individual object.
> >
> > I can only presume you have this all sorted or you would not even be
> going
> > down this road.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 7:30 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't tried it yet but...
> > >
> > > I want to publish my class stuff as an ebook a la Rocky.  The problem
> is
> > > creating an example database that I can update for eratta or fixes.
> The
> > > code below supposedly saves and loads forms and modules.  What I do not
> > > know yet is whether it actually saves the form itself complete with all
> > the
> > > controls, their positions etc.  If so then...
> > >
> > > Imagine a power shell script which the book buyer runs.  The script
> > > downloads a small, mostly empty database from my github page and opens
> > it.
> > > When it opens an autoexec fires, which runs code in the one little
> module
> > > in the mostly empty database.  The code loads a little switchboard form
> > > with chapter buttons contained in a text file stored on my github page.
> > > The click of each button loads any modules, classes and forms required
> > for
> > > a chapter from text files stored on my github page, essentially
> > > bootstrapping a fully functional demo database from text files stored
> on
> > my
> > > github page.  If any of these files need changing or updating, I update
> > > them and load them back to my github page.  The next time the user
> opens
> > > the database, the changes are now loaded in the little database.
> > >
> > > If this works, I could build a maintainable demo database sitting in
> > > GitHub.
> > >
> > > The user can use the switchboard to load demo modules, classes, forms
> and
> > > reports, and then open forms which demo the functioning classes and how
> > > they work.
> > >
> > > In the old days (I know them well) a publisher would build a CD which
> > would
> > > be contained in an envelope in the back of the book.  The method I am
> > > discussing would replace that CD.
> > >
> > > Questions, comments or things I forgot or didn't think about?
> > >
> > > *The code I referenced above...*
> > >
> > > The little documented SaveAsText and LoadFromText may help if an object
> > is
> > > corrupted or otherwise behaving weirdly.  *Or for my purposes above...*
> > >
> > > At the debug/immediate window type:
> > >
> > > Application.SaveAsText acForm,"MyForm","c:\form.txt"
> > >
> > > You can load the file into a new MDB.
> > >
> > > Application.LoadFromText acForm,"MyForm","c:\from.txt"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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