Recent content by John Sh

FWIW, here is the sub. Called from the current control's gotfocus event with "isanythingthere me, me.nameofnextcontrol" Public Sub isAnyThingThere(frm As Form, ctlNext As Control) Dim ctl As Control Set ctl = frm.ActiveControl With frm .Controls(ctl.Name).BackColor =...

NO, Doc_man. The controls are placed top to bottom and the auto tab goes left to right. I have solved the problem using the gotfocus event Private Sub cboFlower_GotFocus() Me.cboFlower.BackColor = TempVars!colouron If Nz(Me.cboFlower.ItemData(0), "") = "" Or Nz(Me.cboFlower, "") > ""...

Hi Ken. That is the simplest method but we're not working with people who are very adaptable. They will click on every control and expect it to go to the next. I have actually taught them to not use tab because the tab order is not always the next control. Some of the forms have 90 odd controls...

That didn't work because the focus changes when you release the mouse button on the dropdown arrow. You don't get to see the dropdown or select an item.

Thank you all. I finished up using the mouseup event. Obviously the mouse down event works equally well but feels a bit too instantaneous. John

This is probably a dumb question, but I have a combo box that gets focus with the correct data. When I click on the combo box there is no response from the "afterupdate" or "onclick" events. How do I get focus to move to the next control?

1) I need to open the files during their construction. It helps me see if the sql strings are doing there thing. 2) This behaviour happens on un-indexed and unfiltered files. I didn't get a chance to test at the uni today, so no results there. John

I have the system running on 10 and 11 at the uni so will do a few tests tomorrow. Watch this space!

I only have one machine with MS Office, so unable to test here but I can test it at the Uni tomorrow. The drivers are probably standard windows drivers, I have never had cause to question them and I am using Windows Defender as my only AV software. Re the CPU update. All this hoo haa about...

Lots to ponder here. I only use CR on close, on my development environment.. My live software is all accde and the backend is backed up after every use. I do have a mouse issue when the batteries are a bit low but that is mainly erratic movement and I have just replaced them without affecting...

1} No. 2) The test accdb is regularly replaced with the active file, although I don't delete one and paste in the other. The behaviour has persisted over multiple copies of the accdb. I have to replace my very old cpu with one compatible with W11. I'll see if that makes a difference when the...

I do a compact and repair on close so corruption is unlikely. Also everything else is working as expected. It just starts for no apparent reason and sometimes just stops doing it. Usually restarting Access fixes it for a while. Just a nuisance really, especially when trying to sort a field.

From time to time, in table view. I get this strange behaviour. I am running Access 2019 and still on W10. First image, Open table view. The first field is already highlighted. Second image, select "Main_Family". All fields to the left are highlighted. Third image, select record 107. All...

Thanks for that. My only observation is that "as_date" and "as_String" rely on a "Null" value but don't consider an empty string. Maybe "NZ()" rather than "isNull" would make them more reliable. Function As_text(cur_text As Variant, Optional on_null As String) As String If nz(cur_text,"")=""...

You have piqued my interest so fire away