Acc 2007 Runtime Zoombox alternative problem

#11

On Feb 27, 8:33*am, "Malcolm" <to__malcolmNOS... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

SNIP

Actually I was replying to Malcom's post, but more to the
thread than any particlar post.

I prefer for a zoom box kind of thingie to be as dumb as
possible, just like the built-in zoom box. *I don't think I
would ever provide a custom edit box for any thing other
than a Text or Memo field so checking the type of the bound
field in the calling form is a really low priority in my
list of needs.

OpenArgs is an argument of OpenForm and is read only. *So
that is not a viable way to return a value.

--
Marsh

Thanks to all for the responses - I have used your idea Marsh because like
you, I believe that the "zoombox" should be as dumb as possible. The
game-changer was to think in terms of the calling control pulling the data
back from the zoombox form, rather than trying to make the zoombox form
bright enough to know where to push the data to. *The idea of hiding the
zoombox form and allowing the calling code to close it after retrieving the
data was brilliant, simple and elegant. * Many thanks!

Malcolm

Hi,

Thanks to this discussion I have extended my Zoombox_form a little
bit, so that it now can navigate over the calling form without leaving
the Zoombox_form.
Very handy if you want to inspect different records one after the
other.

Imb.

#12

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Quote:

Hi,

Thanks to this discussion I have extended my Zoombox_form a little
bit, so that it now can navigate over the calling form without leaving
the Zoombox_form.
Very handy if you want to inspect different records one after the
other.

Imb.

With all the discussion going on, I am getting confused.

For a long time I have used a magnifying glass as described earlier in this
thread. Got intrigued and started developing a zoombox that was activated by
pressing Ctl F11 on any control on any form - i lie - I only messed around
with a text box (no programming required on the form and you could edit the
data in the zoom box which was then saved in the form. As I said, I messed
around with it, and then had more pressing things, but it worked in
principal. So the confusion is between a passive magnifying glass and an
active zoom box. Which is wanted?

Phil

#13

"Phil" <phil (AT) stantonfamily (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Quote:

With all the discussion going on, I am getting confused.
For a long time I have used a magnifying glass as described earlier in
this
thread. Got intrigued and started developing a zoombox that was activated
by
pressing Ctl F11 on any control on any form - i lie - I only messed around
with a text box (no programming required on the form and you could edit
the
data in the zoom box which was then saved in the form. As I said, I messed
around with it, and then had more pressing things, but it worked in
principal. So the confusion is between a passive magnifying glass and an
active zoom box. Which is wanted?

Phil

Hi Phil - sorry to cause confusion! I have been away for a few days, just
returned to this thread. The starting point for me was to replace the normal
<F11> zoombox operation which works fine with a full-blown Access 2007
installation but is unavailable if you run an ACCDB file under Run Time
Acces 2007. A client has one PC with full Access and a host of others
with Runtime so most users saw the functionality on the one machine and
wanted something similar on their installations, hence me needing to develop
a substitute that would fire up OK under Runtime. It was the active
zoombox rather than the magnifyier function that I was looking for. All
good now, users very happy with the results. Thanks again for the inputs.

Malcolm

#14

"Malcolm" <to__malcolmNOSPAM (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in
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Quote:

F11> zoombox operation

Don't you mean Shift-F2? Or has MS changed the keyboard shortcuts in
2007?

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
contact via website only http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

#15

"David-W-Fenton" <NoEmail (AT) SeeSignature (DOT) invalid> wrote

Quote:

"Malcolm" <to__malcolmNOSPAM (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in
news:iler2g$42n$1 (AT) news-01 (DOT) bur.connect.com.au:

F11> zoombox operation

Don't you mean Shift-F2? Or has MS changed the keyboard shortcuts in
2007?

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
contact via website only http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

You are exactly right David, <SHIFT> + <F2> it is - or isn't in the case of
Runtime ;-)

Malcolm

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