Is there a way to use the space beside the nav buttons? 1

[Soundsmith]

When a form uses navigation buttons, they appear in a space (I guess on the form footer) all by themselves. I would love to be able to place some additional controls in that area. Is there any way to do this? David 'Dasher' Kempton
The Soundsmith

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[Tmconsult]

If you are referring to the little nav. buttons on the gray bar at the bottom of the form, no I dont think so. but in design view if you can add customized buttons anywhere you want on the form. the cmdbutton is in the toolbox. if the wizard is enable then Access will help you set up what you want. If the wizard is not activated, you can draw the button and then add an event, either code, macro, or expression.

 

[jgoodman00]

I agree. A while back I tried to work find a way of removing the little arrows which appear on combo-boxes, but apparently this is impossible, because it is part of the windows GUI. Whilst this is not the same, the answer is probably of similar reason.... James Goodman
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[Soundsmith]

That's what I thought - I just hate to waste good screen space... :-(
David 'Dasher' Kempton
The Soundsmith

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[dakota81]

In the form properties, there's a setting to have the navigation buttons or not. I think this will shut off any navigation for the form, some one correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[SyedAqif]

Yes!! In the form properties u can shut Navigation Buttons to "No" and can develope ur own navigation controls, giving u additional space. You can also set Record Selectors to "No" providing you with extra space on the left hand side of form.

Cheers!
Aqif

 

[Soundsmith]

I hadn't thought about writing my own Nav buttons-I figure, use the tools they give you, but push 'em to the limit... X-)

I'll see if a generic replacement would be reasonable, but I do prefer to keep my GUIs as 'normal' as the users expect.

Thanks. David 'Dasher' Kempton
The Soundsmith

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[THoey]

If you have access to The Access 97 Developer's Handbook by Litwin, Getz and Gilbert (SYBEX) there is a great chunk of code there for creating your own nav buttons. Along with a lot of other great code (handling printers, using different sizes for different resolutions, etc). Worth every penny I spent on it. Terry M. Hoey

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[Soundsmith]

Thanks - I have the 2000 version, but it's all ADO, and our County has decided (at least for now) to use DAO. I'll have to dig up a copy! B-)
David 'Dasher' Kempton
The Soundsmith

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