by Jonathan Halder | Dec 20, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I’ve been sick for the past two days, and kept getting too tired to create a post for the day. So I did what I could for my clients first, then slept. 😛 I’m feeling much better today, so I’m back in the messaging chair. I ended up scrapping my idea...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 12, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I am going to test out the free version of the SDOpenAI Access plugin to see how well it works to pair program with. The web site is in German, but I had no problem downloading the executable file (albeit with multiple warning prompts from Edge about being a file that...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 12, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
A common Access problem when rolling out Access applications to users is differences in screen sizes and monitor resolutions. I have one client in particular that generally uses 1920 x 1080 resolution for most of their users, but the boss uses multiple monitors at an...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 26, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Some things you do when designing forms inherently reset the VBA environment. This takes all your existing object variables in that form and resets them. That’s why I often use a function to refer to an object to check to make sure it exists before I use it so I...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 21, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Now I have some code. Here’s what my form looks like so far: That contains the following module: ‘Form_frmAccounts Option Compare Database Option Explicit Private InternalAccount As AccountInterface Private Function Acct() As AccountInterface If...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 20, 2024 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I am currently discussing a credit card payoff application I’m working on in terms of Model-View-Control architecture in a series of messages. In this message, moving back to forms, I have built a form (user interface) which I am going to think of as the user...
