You know when you're using the form wizrd to create a new form, and you get to choose the style...
Currently my choices are:
Blends, blueprint, expedition, industrial, international, ricepaper, sandstone, standard, stone, sumi painting
are there more of these somewhere? where can I get more or how can I create others??
Help!
Hi Guys,
Being primarily a webhead, it is possible to have something similar to a Stylesheet (CSS) to control the fonts/colours of all my forms and their various controls?
I was thinking that if i created global variables i.e.
dim bgcolor as Interger
bgcolor = 13256464 (color value)
then creating a sub routine that cycled through various properties of the form
e.g. sub formatform ()
me.formheader.backcolor = bgcolor
I could then call this sub routine in the on form load event.
Is this a good way of doing it or is there a better alternative?
Ideally I would like to have the values for each form property in a table so that the user could potentially to change these or the application could be customized to suit a companies colour scheme?
Any advise would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Ben
Hi
First of all i have found a lot of helpful things while browsing through the forums, so thank you very much everyone and this forced me to register here.
I have got a question to ask:
Can i get some access form styles from a website? I have tried searching but could not find anything, however i have seen in sample databases that there are different form styles then to those originally available in access xp.
Any help is appreciated
Thankyou
Hello All:
A database with Last_name, First_name, Midd_name and Suffix.
These textboxes are concatenated into another textbox called "full_name".
The font style chosen for the full_name textbox is "Old English".
The suffixes used are: II, III and IV.
When Old English is applied to Last_name, First_name, Midd_name, it looks great.
Unfortunately when Old English is applied to these suffixes, it looks terrible.
Is there a way to preserve the "II", "II" and "III"?
Is it possible to have more than one font style in a concantenated textbox?
This will be used for printing completion certificates, so the spacing of the names is important.(Report)
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Dee
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By clicking in the standard colors area at the bottom of the colour chooser I can find a very similar blue #D6DFEC but it doesn't look quite right. And the "accent" colour does not give me a Hex value.Is that "usual" blue even one colour? How can I reset a button to that style having changed it?
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Form Detail
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Here is my code
Code:
Dim rstMyForm As DAO.Recordset
Set rstMyForm = Forms!MyForm.Form.Recordset
rstMyForm.MoveFirst
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[code]...
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pseudocode so far:
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2. ContactInfoForm
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Private Sub SalesID_Click()
Forms!Mainform.Requery
Forms!Mainform!Sales_Admin_Form!Sales_Admin_SalesI D.Value = SalesID.Value
Forms!Mainform!Sales_Admin_Form.SetFocus
Forms!Mainform!Sales_Admin_Form!Sales_Admin_SalesI D.SetFocus
[code]....
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Code:
Private Sub ModeBt_Click()
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Circular toggle button to change display mode of the form
' ReadOnly - Edit - Add
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Select Case Me.Mode
Case "Edit Mode"
Me.AllowEdits = False
[code]....
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