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You can split a db, but can you split a form?

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 13, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

What would your strategy for splitting a form between logic and database record management? I’m honestly asking, because that’s what I’m thinking about today. I’m thinking in terms of creating tests a la TDD style work. Having business logic...

Measuring Height of controls using the CanGrow Property in Access (Part 3)

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 12, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

In the past 2 day’s messages I have been wrestling with calculating the height of a report. In particular the detail section of a report inside a subreport control on a form in which the report is shown in report view (not print preview). This situation creates...

Measuring Height of controls using the CanGrow Property in Access (Part 2)

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 11, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

In Friday’s message, I was working on determining the height of the detail section with a Text Box control that has the CanGrow property set to “Yes”. It is possible to determine this when displaying the report in “Print Preview” mode...

Measuring Height of controls using the CanGrow Property in Access (Part 1)

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 8, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding

This property is on form and report sections and many controls like Text Boxes. This seems to be a wonderful property for automatically adjusting the height of things on a form until you make the inevitable discovery: It only works in a form when you are printing the...

Access custom event registration

by Jonathan Halder | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

When registering events for controls on a subform, make sure you remember that you re-register those events after reloading the subform control via the SourceObject property. In my case, I was always loading a subform initially and the Open routine on the subform...
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