Problem With The Window Sizes On Forms?
Mar 31, 2005
After much work and help from a lot of competent ppl on this forum i have finally been able to get my dB together. Now i have a problem though which i can't solve.
Problem is this:
I open a form, lets call it MENU. From this you open a second form called NewEmployee.
In this new form you insert new data about the employee(s) and then insert them in the dB.
So far so good, but when you do a print about the employee, the procedure is this:
A special form is opened (PrintOutForm), its fields are filled with data from the NewEmployee, it is printed and then closed.
Problem with this is that the MENU form is now not-maximized :) Which it was when you opened the dB.
Is this something any of you guys have encountered before?
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Aug 25, 2005
I have written a database application in Access 2003 for my company. I am going to deploy it with Terminal services on a Windows 2000 Server. I went to my server room to logon and test and found that 90% of the screens I designed had print and close command buttons that were off the screen. I developed the application on a 19" plat panel display with 1280 X 1024 res. The server room has a 17" Non-flat panel with 1024 X 768 res. I am assuming this is the culprit. Is there a way to make the application a "ONE SIZE FITS ALL" solution. Im sure writing a different version for every possible resolution is not how it is done. Any ideas would be deeply appreciated
Thanks
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Sep 18, 2013
Using Access 2010, I have a subform in datasheet view and I want to set the font size to 10pt. Setting font sizes for datasheet fields in the Format tab does not change the font size displayed.
I understand that the font size can be set using VBA (for example: Me.DatasheetFontHeight=10). Where do I put this code for it to work in a) a single datasheet b) all datasheets in the db?
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Oct 21, 2013
My application is developed in Access 2003 version. Recently we moved from Access 2003 to Access 2010. Now users are facing usability issues like - in Access 2003 all the forms are opening in different windows and they can move to forms easily. But in Access 2010 all the Forms are opening in same window, if they want to move to different forms then they need to close the current window or press ctrl+F6. How can I enable/open forms multiple window in Access 2010.
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Feb 15, 2005
Hi,
I have a parent window which upon clicking on a button will pop-up a child window containing a listbox. The listbox recordsource is a subset of the parent window. I want the user to select a record from the listbox which will load the selected record onto the parent window.
How does one pass argument back from child window to parent window?
From parent window to child window, I used
docmd.openform ,,,,,,[argument] and me.openargs in the child window
thanks in advance.
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Jan 13, 2006
Hello,
I have database that is linked to an asp style website. In my Products table, I have a field for Product_Description. Unfortunately the descriptions for the products that I have are very lengthy, some 10 sentences and above. And as access only allows for field sizes of 255 characters max, I can barely fit 1-2 sentences here.
I was wondering whether there is a way of getting a much bigger field size at all?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Oct 20, 2005
How can I control the size of my form. I would like some of my form with my program to open small, since they are small forms, and some large because they are the whole size of the forms. I hope I have explained this enough for someone to help.Thanks in advance.
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Nov 17, 2004
Hi,
I am a new member, who has been reading these postings for several weeks, hoping for a few quick answers, but no luck.
I have several issues on form size.
The first is that some of my forms open OK, but they change the form size of the form that opened them. My main form is maximized. When I open a child form, not maximized, the main form, and the open Access windows, such as the DataBase form and any open Tables, Queries, Reports, etc all become non-maximized.
The main form has the dimensions of the last-opened form .mde files, which leads me to believe that there is some Access option that crosses project or database lines. I cannot find it.
If I maximize the main form with the child form open, Access maximizes the child form also. If any form is open in Design View, the Properties window may be on top of everything. As the controls I need are seldom visible in these small windows, I spend much effort resizing windows.
What do I need to do to have a maximized "Switchboard" and smaller child windows/Forms???
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I have a multiuser database back end with approximately 25 tables. The file size for the back end has recently jumped from approx. 50mb to 270mb, but I do not know where the data causing this increase is placed. Is it possible to measure the file space usage (in mb) that each table contributes so that I can determine the source of the increase.
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May 30, 2006
How can i make all my forums fill my screen? so dont have to recreate them? so they are not just tiny boxes. as originaly designed? I looked in hope that there maybe have been something in the startup drop drop down, but i was't so luck. also tried to select whole forum and group and name the whole thing bigger by dragging the resize command. but this just messed the whole forums up so i did't save changes.
Thanks im sure this is a really stupid question.
Shrew
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Well, today I had a problem with my main access db. It stopped letting me create MDE files, and my usual trick of decompiling it didn't work. I eventually got it working by importing everything into a blank database and setting the startup form and references again. However when I did this, I noticed a very big difference in file sizes. My old MDB file was 14mb, while the new one was about 5mb.
Just wondering if anybody else has come across anything like this before? Everything seems to be working fine and transferred over corrrectly, but such a huge difference worries me slightly.
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Jun 20, 2007
Hi,
i am developing a clothing order management database.
I have so far got [order details], [products], [product details] entities.
This is so that products with the same model code can have a selection of colours and sizes which are held in the product details table.
I followed this website which was very helpful: http://www.princeton.edu/~rcurtis/ul...database2.html
The question is now: each size and colour will have a different stock quantity. How do i model this, for example, so when a Small Red t-shirt is added, the small red t-shirts quantity decreases rather than the overall quantity for the model.
any ideas?
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Nov 19, 2006
I browsed a lot of posts related to fonts, and pored over my "Mastering Access 2000" and "Access 2000 Power Programming" books, but I couldn't find answers to my specific questions.
I have many years of experience with Access, but I've only recently become interested in making my forms look nice on a variety of user PC configurations. Now, like many others, I sometimes spend too much time formatting a form so it looks really nice on my PC, only to find formatting problems on the user's PC. For example, a label using Arial Rounded MT Bold looks great on my PC but is cut off on the user's PC. Similarly, Tahoma on buttons looks nice on my PC but looks bigger and bolder on the user's PC.
At first I thought this was probably a font problem. But then I realized that even with the same screen resolution, the forms themselves (not just the fonts) appeared bigger on the user's PC. Some forms didn't even fit inside a maximized Access window, whereas they certainly did on my PC - again, this is with the same screen resolution. So now I don't know if it's a font problem, some other problem, or perhaps multiple problems.
Which leads to my questions:
(1) If I set the size of a form on my PC, and the screen resolution is the same on my PC and the user's PC, then why does my form show up relatively bigger on some users' PCs? How can one control the look of a form if the form properties are not applied identically on different PCs?
(2) Why do all the fonts look bigger and fatter / bolder on some users' PCs?
(3) Is there a user-configurable Windows setting that overrides the font size settings I assign to controls?
(4) How can I determine in code if specific fonts are supported (if this is a necessary step)?
(5) What is the industry best practice for managing font selection, allowing for the possibility that the desired fonts may not be supported?
Thanks for your help...
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I am using Access 2010 and creating a front-end for a customer database.
Take a look at the screen capture I added to this post.
What I want to happen is on that "Supplier" button. When I click on it, it opens a new window with the "Supplier" form and on the specific supplier for this product. There is an attached image of what that macro looks like.
The problem I am having is that I do not want the Supplier form to open in a new window, I want it to open within the Navigation Form, replacing the what is currently on the screen.
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I've created a query called "JobHistoryQuery" and a form called "JobHistoryMultiForm", this displays all Jobs related to an Asset and all the information about that job. There are some fields (BilledMonth, BilledYear, BilledValue, Parts Required, PartsUsed), however, that I would only like to see if I need to see them (as there is quite a lot of information on the form and ideally, I'd like to be able to see the key information from each job from that asset with ease). What I would like is to create a button that says "Billing" and "Parts" for each job and it brings up a pop up window displaying that information.
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Oct 11, 2013
The picture i have attached shows how i want a form to show, WITHIN its own window basically.
At the moment on my new database i am making, it will only show in tabs along the top, no matter what i try i cannot seem to get it into its own window if that makes sense.
No matter what i do when i view the form it just fills the screen regardless of the size in the design view, i am about to throw my computer out the window over something so simple!?!?
The picture attached i think i created that database is Access 2010, this new one is in 2013, and i dont know how to do this simple thing!
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Private Sub cmdCompleted_Click()
On Error GoTo Err_cmdCompleted_Click
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSelectRecord
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdDeleteRecord
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Feb 23, 2014
I find the following CODE online (Print to PDF). Which work perfectly for me, the only issue and/or modification I am looking for "Popup Window to save the file at any location", instead at fixed location.
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Function PrintToPDF(SrcFile As String)
On Error GoTo PrintToPDF_Err
'Function can be called from any report with this: "PrintToPDF(Screen.ActiveForm.Name)"
[Code] ....
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Sep 24, 2013
I recently completed a db for a client and they have since asked that the access window be hidden for certain types of users.This I did using
Code:
ShowWindowAsync Application.hWndAccessApp(), SW_HIDE
if a relevant user opened the db. All well and good, except they then wanted to be able to see the Access link in the taskbar (which SW_HIDE doesn't do) - so I changed it to SW_MINIMISE and they were happy again until..They then realised (and it was a surprise to me as well) that the right click context menus used to filter and sort continuous or datasheet forms were no longer available to these users - nor was the context menu for datasheet columns to freeze or hide columns - see attached.
I've experimented with a number of options and these context menus are available if ShowWindowAsync is not called or if called with SW_HIDE, but not for SW_MINIMISED, SW_SHOWMINIMISED, SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE, SW_SHOWNOACTIVE.
Why the shortcut menus are not available when the Access window is minimised? The requirement being that the context menus are available to all users the Access link appears on the task bar for all users the access window is hidden for some users.I should say that due to hiding/minimising the access window all forms are popup and modal.
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I have three forms:
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Form_C (opens from button on Form_B)
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I would like Form_C to open in front of Form_B. I suspect that I set up the form incorrectly or something when I created it, and it is therefore opening inside an Access window.
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