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From: Lord Kelvan on 19 May 2010 17:51 Quick question looking for others opinions on the subject I develop apps for a company and up until now I have been using modal forms to keep the most resent form open on top I have recently learnt how to hide the access window and keep the forms visible using popup quite neat to be honest. My reasoning behind this is staff here use many apps but when I present them with an app that is built using ms access they think they cannot use it as for some reason in their heads it is harder to click a button using a ms access app than to click a button using a non ms access app. (PS if you hadnt caught on my staff are incompetent and need to be shot several times in the back of the head.) So hiding the ms access window and using the popup property allows me to trick them in to believing it is just as easy i.e. I dont tell them it is a ms access app. In doing this now that there is no container to hold all the forms that open one another depending on their function and I am wondering which would be a better practice in using Multiple. 1. Would the better practice be to show and hide forms as they open and close? i.e. the switchboard opens another form then I hide the switchboard and when that form closes I show the switchboard again. 2. Or would the better practice be not to hide any forms and just use modal property as I have been doing up until now? All opinions will be much appreciated into making a decision on best practice. Regards Kelvan
From: Jeff Boyce on 19 May 2010 18:37 A "best practice" implies someone knows the "right" answer ... Then you're stuck with having to figure out who is right?! If what you're doing works, why change it? Regards Jeff Boyce Microsoft Access MVP -- Disclaimer: This author may have received products and services mentioned in this post. Mention and/or description of a product or service herein does not constitute endorsement thereof. Any code or pseudocode included in this post is offered "as is", with no guarantee as to suitability. You can thank the FTC of the USA for making this disclaimer possible/necessary. "Lord Kelvan" <the_iddiot(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:497adfb1-a41e-4194-9e95-8fc5d7e540a4(a)32g2000prq.googlegroups.com... Quick question looking for others opinions on the subject I develop apps for a company and up until now I have been using modal forms to keep the most resent form open on top I have recently learnt how to hide the access window and keep the forms visible using popup quite neat to be honest. My reasoning behind this is staff here use many apps but when I present them with an app that is built using ms access they think they cannot use it as for some reason in their heads it is harder to click a button using a ms access app than to click a button using a non ms access app. (PS if you hadn�t caught on my staff are incompetent and need to be shot several times in the back of the head.) So hiding the ms access window and using the popup property allows me to trick them in to believing it is just as easy i.e. I don�t tell them it is a ms access app. In doing this now that there is no container to hold all the forms that open one another depending on their function and I am wondering which would be a better practice in using Multiple. 1. Would the better practice be to show and hide forms as they open and close? i.e. the switchboard opens another form then I hide the switchboard and when that form closes I show the switchboard again. 2. Or would the better practice be not to hide any forms and just use modal property as I have been doing up until now? All opinions will be much appreciated into making a decision on best practice. Regards Kelvan
From: Lord Kelvan on 19 May 2010 18:47 i am thinking of changing it because it doesnt feel right (and i use that term loosly) with the forms in modal and i am leaning towards show and hiding forms and i am more wondering if that is an ok thing to do from a programming point of view. Regards Kelvan
From: Jeanette Cunningham on 19 May 2010 19:11 Showing and hiding forms is a very common thing to do in programming. One catch is that you can't show a form it if isn't already open and hidden. So I always include code that tests to see if the form is already loaded before the line of code that makes that form visible. Jeanette Cunningham MS Access MVP -- Melbourne Victoria Australia "Lord Kelvan" <the_iddiot(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:33ad9a72-2a18-48d4-bbd1-3db7682999d3(a)r21g2000prr.googlegroups.com... >i am thinking of changing it because it doesnt feel right (and i use > that term loosly) with the forms in modal and i am leaning towards > show and hiding forms and i am more wondering if that is an ok thing > to do from a programming point of view. > > Regards > Kelvan
From: Lord Kelvan on 19 May 2010 19:19
yeah i have realised that as with the popup functionality of my application i have to hide the switchboard inorder to display the reports and i have already the functionality to test if isloaded as i need that to refresh my popup forms as onactivate does not work for these types of forms Regards Kelvan |