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Group Controls For One Event
I would like to be able to group a bunch of text boxes on my form so that if
something changes in any of them I can use the onchange event for the group and not have to add code for all textboxes. Is this possible? Thanks. |
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There are different ways to achieve that. Are the specified controls al
textboxes or.. what makes the distinction. The 'tag' property of the control is often used for checking groups of controls. Example: alle the controls that have "hide" in them should be hidden after a certain action. set every tag of the specified controls to "Hide" and then the following under the event handler code: dim ctl as control for each ctl in me if ctl.tag="hide" then ctl.visible=false else 'you could do something alternative here otherwise leave the else out end if next hth -- Maurice Ausum "Microsoft Access" wrote: I would like to be able to group a bunch of text boxes on my form so that if something changes in any of them I can use the onchange event for the group and not have to add code for all textboxes. Is this possible? Thanks. . |
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:06:14 -0400, "Microsoft Access"
wrote: I would like to be able to group a bunch of text boxes on my form so that if something changes in any of them I can use the onchange event for the group and not have to add code for all textboxes. Is this possible? Thanks. Watch out: the Change event's name is a bit misleading. You may want the AfterUpdate event instead - the Change event fires at every keystroke, AfterUpdate when a new value has been entered and the user leaves the control. That said... no, you can't do this directly, but you can create a Function in the form's module, and put =FunctionName(arguments) in place of [Event Procedure] in the appropriate event of each textbox. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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Thanks Maurice, that is an interesting solution. It wouldn't work here
because I am looking for an event to fire, but I think John addressed this case. I will keep this idea in mind for the future though. "Maurice" wrote in message ... There are different ways to achieve that. Are the specified controls al textboxes or.. what makes the distinction. The 'tag' property of the control is often used for checking groups of controls. Example: alle the controls that have "hide" in them should be hidden after a certain action. set every tag of the specified controls to "Hide" and then the following under the event handler code: dim ctl as control for each ctl in me if ctl.tag="hide" then ctl.visible=false else 'you could do something alternative here otherwise leave the else out end if next hth -- Maurice Ausum "Microsoft Access" wrote: I would like to be able to group a bunch of text boxes on my form so that if something changes in any of them I can use the onchange event for the group and not have to add code for all textboxes. Is this possible? Thanks. . |
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Thanks John, I will do what you said about adding the function to the event
in properties. Thanks for the thoughts. "John W. Vinson" wrote in message ... On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:06:14 -0400, "Microsoft Access" wrote: I would like to be able to group a bunch of text boxes on my form so that if something changes in any of them I can use the onchange event for the group and not have to add code for all textboxes. Is this possible? Thanks. Watch out: the Change event's name is a bit misleading. You may want the AfterUpdate event instead - the Change event fires at every keystroke, AfterUpdate when a new value has been entered and the user leaves the control. That said... no, you can't do this directly, but you can create a Function in the form's module, and put =FunctionName(arguments) in place of [Event Procedure] in the appropriate event of each textbox. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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