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Grid design for controls in form
I am trying to design a form where I have controls in a grid design 30 X 30 on a form, with all the controls unbound. The idea is that users will be able to click on controls on the form and change the foreground and background colours with the aim of easily allowing users to graphically show where items are stored in a storage area. I have created a details form with colour coding for each item selected by the user and can tranfer this information using code. However, I cannot workout how to store the info for each control and make the grid work short of making a separate table for each control in the grid and using subforms. Any ideas?
Whoops...
If so, then try this. Create a table like this called tblState
ID(int) ForeColour (long) Backcolour (long)
0 0 256
1 8 256
2 128 1024
Make your controls into a control array (called txtDisplay for eg) for ease of use. When opening the form, you can refer to each element in the array with the ID field in the new table. e.g.
with tblState
Do while not .Eof
Me.txtDisplay(![ID]).forec
Me.txtDisplay(![ID]).backc
.movenext
loop
end with
To save, when exiting the form just reverse the process like
For intLoopCount = 0 to 29
set rstSave = currentdb.openrecordset("S
if rstsave.recordcount > 0 then
rstsave.edit
rstsave![ForeColor]=me.txt
rstsave![BackColor]=me.txt
rstsave.update
end if
rstsave.close
next intloopcount
HTH
Simon
If so, then try this. Create a table like this called tblState
ID(int) ForeColour (long) Backcolour (long)
0 0 256
1 8 256
2 128 1024
Make your controls into a control array (called txtDisplay for eg) for ease of use. When opening the form, you can refer to each element in the array with the ID field in the new table. e.g.
with tblState
Do while not .Eof
Me.txtDisplay(![ID]).forec
Me.txtDisplay(![ID]).backc
.movenext
loop
end with
To save, when exiting the form just reverse the process like
For intLoopCount = 0 to 29
set rstSave = currentdb.openrecordset("S
if rstsave.recordcount > 0 then
rstsave.edit
rstsave![ForeColor]=me.txt
rstsave![BackColor]=me.txt
rstsave.update
end if
rstsave.close
next intloopcount
HTH
Simon
If you have a stable design, you could try a solution like this:
create a user type to represent each of your button, and either make a table containing all your buttons data ( but take care of the limit on the nuimber of fields in a table) or better, make a master detail design with a table for the total store, and a table linked by a foreign key to the previous one, rerpesenting one button per record or a row of buttons (30) per record. Then you can choose to represent it as a single form with a query joining all the info, or as a master detail form...
create a user type to represent each of your button, and either make a table containing all your buttons data ( but take care of the limit on the nuimber of fields in a table) or better, make a master detail design with a table for the total store, and a table linked by a foreign key to the previous one, rerpesenting one button per record or a row of buttons (30) per record. Then you can choose to represent it as a single form with a query joining all the info, or as a master detail form...
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From what you are saying you will have a 'grid' of 30 by 30 textboxes. When clicked upon, you want the colour(s) to change. You also want the user to be able to close the form, exit the app, and when the return to have the form in the same state?
Thanks
Simon