Category Archives: User Interface (UI)
Playing Tag with Validation
In this article, John Williams shows how to use the Tag property of a calculated control to help validate its contents. I’ve always been a fan of the Tag property of Access forms and controls. The Tag property can be … Continue reading
Logging Access Startup Details and Version Control
Often, in order to get the best performance from your application (or determine what’s going wrong with it), you have to know what your application is really doing. That’s the role of logging: providing a trail of what was going … Continue reading
Is the Query Compiled?
DAO provides an object model that supplies almost every piece of information about a query you might want to know. One piece of information it doesn’t provide, however, is whether or not a query is compiled. Michael and Julianne discuss … Continue reading
Implementing Proactive User Assistance
A well-designed application provides help on several levels. Control captions, status bar text, and ToolTips provide passive support. Progress meters, system messages, and traditional online Help provide reactive support. Both of these types of user assistance add to the application’s … Continue reading
Handling Visual Complexity
Building a great user interface isn’t simple–but the result should be. No matter how complex the task is, your users should find it easy to figure how to use your application. Peter Vogel discusses two kinds of complexity and the … Continue reading
