Category Archives: Access Controls
Paired Listbox Controls, Part 2
This month, Rebecca Riordan continues her examination of paired Listbox controls by adding two additional functions: deferring data updates until users explicitly commit their changes, and restoring the contents of the paired Listbox controls to their initial state. Last month, … Continue reading
Creating Paired Listbox Controls
Presenting a pair of Listbox controls to the user and allowing the user to move an item from one to the other is a popular and effective user interface technique. Microsoft Access doesn’t provide any intrinsic controls for performing this, … Continue reading
Combo Boxes and List Boxes
I miss the days when I could tab to a combo box, press the Alt-Down key combination, and the ComboBox would open for me. I suppose Microsoft removed the keystrokes because Alt should only be used for accessing menus. High-volume … Continue reading
Check, Please and Procedures in the Event of Problems…
This month, Doug Steele looks at how to have larger checkboxes and how to deal with code that gets unlinked from the control to which it’s supposed to be linked. This Part 2 of Access Answers for Mar 2004 Sometimes … Continue reading
