Solved Simple VBA code to change form of a subform programmatically .. (1 Viewer)

[Pat Hartman]

Sorry, maybe I just misread what you said.

The comment was subtle and I didn't expand on it. I don't know for certain that buttons won't work. It is just not obvious how to make them work and I didn't have the time to spend on the task. Give it a shot.

 

[sjs94704]

The comment was subtle and I didn't expand on it. I don't know for certain that buttons won't work. It is just not obvious how to make them work and I didn't have the time to spend on the task. Give it a shot.

OK, well I do remember from a previous experience that the security issue was quite cumbersome, but in that case we were opening and closing entire forms and the list if IF statements that we ended up having to cover all the various roles got very long! We probably could have done a much better job by breaking redundant things up into smaller routines, but it is what it is!

 

[Pat Hartman]

I didn't know we were talking about security. I thought we were just talking about a way to format a switchboard/menu as a navigation pane but use a subform to control the buttons rather than hard coding them.

For your own sanity, security settings should NEVER be hard coded. Always tablize them. If you need an example of a simple way to do that, look at the switchboard with securities sample database. Some of the switchboards are the same as in the unsecured version but not all.

Switchboard with simple security

This is a custom switchboard. It expands on the Switchboard Items table to add four additional columns to define view/edit/add/delete security levels for switchboard items and forms/reports referenced by them. It includes tables to manage users and also to assign them security levels. The user...

www.access-programmers.co.uk

 

[sjs94704]

I didn't know we were talking about security. I thought we were just talking about a way to format a switchboard/menu as a navigation pane but use a subform to control the buttons rather than hard coding them.

For your own sanity, security settings should NEVER be hard coded. Always tablize them. If you need an example of a simple way to do that, look at the switchboard with securities sample database. Some of the switchboards are the same as in the unsecured version but not all.

Switchboard with simple security

This is a custom switchboard. It expands on the Switchboard Items table to add four additional columns to define view/edit/add/delete security levels for switchboard items and forms/reports referenced by them. It includes tables to manage users and also to assign them security levels. The user...

www.access-programmers.co.uk

Thanks, Pat. I appreciate the referral. I have book marked the security database thread and will take a closer look.

 

[murphybridget]

Thanks Pat, I will definitely develop something around this whole idea. I was getting ready to do an accordion style menu system links or buttons on the left side and you got me thinking about the possibility of making adding more future buttons in a manor that makes the whole process a lot easier (flexible). I did some preliminary tests using some simple unicode symbols and they display in the table just fine so they should easily display in the button menu. So that's what I was hoping for.

I just added two more columns to your tblButtons to hold the decimal value of the unicode values (DecVal_1 and DecVal_2). Then using a query to combine them together with the text of the button creates a nice looking button. I will need to do a lot more testing to see what's possible and what's not, but so far it has potential.

Sounds like a clever approach to enhance the visual appeal of the buttons.

 

[Mike Krailo]

It looks like the solution to binding captions to buttons from tables into continuous forms has been solved using the paint event for the detail section of the continuous form. This idea was from another thread about manipulating the visibility of a command button in a continuous form which is not possible. But each buttons caption can be different according to a table or a field in the continuous form by using that On Paint event. Didn't think it was possible until today.

Private Sub Detail_Paint()
   Me.Option1.Caption = Me.ItemText
End Sub

 

[Pat Hartman]

That's pretty amazing. Thanks for following through on that idea.

Mike, can you upload your version of the form so I don't have to figure out the details and I'll add it into my switchboard samples? Thanks.

 

[Mike Krailo]

I'll give you what I have which isn't much. I'm really just toying around with the idea after having learned this technique. There is currently a bug that causes all the buttons to turn into "Exit Application" buttons (continuous navigation form). Not sure why yet. I see that the paint event is firing four times the moment I hover over one of the buttons which was not expected. When the bug doesn't trigger, it seems to work. So there should be a path forward with this.

 

[murphybridget]

I'll give you what I have which isn't much. I'm really just toying around with the idea after having learned this technique. There is currently a bug that causes all the buttons to turn into "Exit Application" buttons (continuous navigation form). Not sure why yet. I see that the paint event is firing four times the moment I hover over one of the buttons which was not expected. When the bug doesn't trigger, it seems to work. So there should be a path forward with this.

Thank you for sharing. Though I may not have any direct use for the file, I truly appreciate everyone's desire to help. Who knows I might this in the future.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Thanks. I'm busy for a week or two but will get to it.

 

[Mike Krailo]

Thanks. I'm busy for a week or two but will get to it.

I got it working better now, but there is still a small anomaly that causes the buttons caption to change to the value of the button below it after clicking the button. It's nothing major, but working around this event is kind of tricky.

 

[Pat Hartman]

That's the kind of stuff I was running into when I built the sample form and since I didn't need the functionality, I didn't have time to futz with it.