Jjuavinett
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F11 KEY
For the longest time I thought I had a level of protection from amateur users to get in behind a switchboard. I de-activated the Shift enter key. I now find that even thought the shift funtion is diabled, hitting the F11 key will bring up the database and allow design view to modify tables queries etc.
Is there code I can write that will dis-able the f11 key yet once dis-abled allow me to re-enable it when I need
Is there code I can write that will dis-able the f11 key yet once dis-abled allow me to re-enable it when I need
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Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)
disabling the F11 KEY is not good {imho} i just set the password...
What u can do is disable it in Tools/Startup
The way round this of course is if u open the database using the SHIFT key
Of course u can prevent this as well, by adding some code
What ive done in the past is to lock it down like this but have something on the switchboard somewhere which when double clicked (like a main menu label) will prompt for a pswd. When entered, it enables shift bypass. I close down and restart DB, all sorted, Im in!!!
Useful when on the user's PC, no additonal s/w required to be installed
The way round this of course is if u open the database using the SHIFT key
Of course u can prevent this as well, by adding some code
What ive done in the past is to lock it down like this but have something on the switchboard somewhere which when double clicked (like a main menu label) will prompt for a pswd. When entered, it enables shift bypass. I close down and restart DB, all sorted, Im in!!!
Useful when on the user's PC, no additonal s/w required to be installed
How about only giving your users an MDE (compiled) version of your application. They shouldn't be able to do anything no matter what they hit since teh MDE doesn't allow modifications.
Here is sample code that here is a mixture of enabling/disabling
u can add this to a module somewhere
You will see there is StartupShowDBWindow and AllowBypasskey (the shift I was talking about)
Sub SetFullStartupProperties()
ChangeProperty "StartupShowDBWindow", dbBoolean, False
ChangeProperty "AllowBypassKey", dbBoolean, True
End Sub
Function ChangeProperty(strPropName
varPropType As Variant, _
varPropValue As Variant) As Integer
Dim prp As Property
Const conPropNotFoundError = 3270
On Error GoTo Change_Err
CurrentDb.Properties(strPr
ChangeProperty = True
Change_Bye:
Exit Function
Change_Err:
If Err = conPropNotFoundError Then
' Property not found.
Set prp = CurrentDb.CreateProperty(s
CurrentDb.Properties.Appen
Resume Next
Else ' Unknown error.
ChangeProperty = False
Resume Change_Bye
End If
End Function
Of course, u dont have to do the bypass, just code it to enable/disable the StartupShowDBWindow bit
u can add this to a module somewhere
You will see there is StartupShowDBWindow and AllowBypasskey (the shift I was talking about)
Sub SetFullStartupProperties()
ChangeProperty "StartupShowDBWindow", dbBoolean, False
ChangeProperty "AllowBypassKey", dbBoolean, True
End Sub
Function ChangeProperty(strPropName
varPropType As Variant, _
varPropValue As Variant) As Integer
Dim prp As Property
Const conPropNotFoundError = 3270
On Error GoTo Change_Err
CurrentDb.Properties(strPr
ChangeProperty = True
Change_Bye:
Exit Function
Change_Err:
If Err = conPropNotFoundError Then
' Property not found.
Set prp = CurrentDb.CreateProperty(s
CurrentDb.Properties.Appen
Resume Next
Else ' Unknown error.
ChangeProperty = False
Resume Change_Bye
End If
End Function
Of course, u dont have to do the bypass, just code it to enable/disable the StartupShowDBWindow bit
This shows how to enable/disable menus and F11 (as Cap says)
http://www.datamouse.biz/Developers_Files/General_Menus.html
http://www.datamouse.biz/Developers_Files/General_Menus.html