Simulating tabular (multirecord) Access forms in C++/VB

Are you using MFC?

Do you want to access the Access data files, or are you interested in creating your own data files?

There is an ActiveX control named the DataRepeater.  It allows you to display a list of items that are bound to a data source.  Each item in the scollable list is actually a copy of an ActiveX control.  The idea is that you create an ActiveX control that contains several fields, for instance,
   sLastName, sFirstName, fHasADog, imgPhotoOfNakedDog
when the DataRepeater is displayed, it opens a database table and pours one record into each control.  The cool part is that you can have checkboxes, pictures, comboboxes, whatever you want... and the list is 'virtual' so only the immediately-visible records get transferred from the database.  

The good news is, you can actually try this out *without_writing_a_single_line_of_code*.  Just pop into the dialog editor, add an AdoDataControl and a DataRepeater, set up the ADO Control's datasource, and identify it as the datasource for the Repeater, then bind a database field to an RTF control that will be repeated.  Press Ctrl+T to test it and there's your data!

Now the bad news.  This control is designed for ease of use with VisualBasic and all of the documentation assumes that you are prograamming in VB.  

The other bad news is that you will need to create a multple-control ActiveX control to use in the Repeater.  That is easier said than done, and the dox are all written for VB programmers.

-- Dan

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