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Old January 15th, 2005, 07:10 AM
John S. Ford, MD
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Default "Auto Repeat" feature on command buttons

I'm coding in Access 97. Because I needed to customize the way a particular
form navigates through records, I created and coded my own record navigation
buttons. This works fine except for one thing. I'd like them to behave the
same way the "real" navigation buttons work when the user keeps one of them
down: automatically repeating.

In the Acc97 help files, the Auto Repeat property of a command button is
described. It is specifically stated that despite setting it to "Yes", if
the event handler changes the current record, the Auto Repeat property has
no effect. Well, they weren't lying!

Is there any way to get around this?

John


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Old January 15th, 2005, 07:17 AM
Allen Browne
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AutoRepeat does work, but as you found it does not work for a change of
record.

One workaround is to place the nav buttons in an unbound subform. Naturally
the code has to be changed so that it changes record in the main form, but
IIRC that allows the AutoRepeat to do its thing.

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"John S. Ford, MD" wrote in message
...
I'm coding in Access 97. Because I needed to customize the way a
particular
form navigates through records, I created and coded my own record
navigation
buttons. This works fine except for one thing. I'd like them to behave
the
same way the "real" navigation buttons work when the user keeps one of
them
down: automatically repeating.

In the Acc97 help files, the Auto Repeat property of a command button is
described. It is specifically stated that despite setting it to "Yes", if
the event handler changes the current record, the Auto Repeat property has
no effect. Well, they weren't lying!

Is there any way to get around this?

John



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Old January 15th, 2005, 07:49 AM
John S. Ford, MD
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Allen,

Thanks for the idea. One question. I'm writing the code for the navigation
button sitting on my new subform. How do I make the DoCmd object operate on
the main form as in:

DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acNext

where I'm refering to the parent form that the subform is sitting on?

John


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Old January 15th, 2005, 11:53 AM
Rob Oldfield
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You just need to specify the name of the form to use....in your case:

DoCmd.GoToRecord acDataForm, Parent.Name, acNext



"John S. Ford, MD" wrote in message
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Allen,

Thanks for the idea. One question. I'm writing the code for the

navigation
button sitting on my new subform. How do I make the DoCmd object operate

on
the main form as in:

DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acNext

where I'm refering to the parent form that the subform is sitting on?

John




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Old January 15th, 2005, 04:18 PM
Stephen Lebans
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As Allen said, stick your CommandButtons on a SubForm. Sample code is
he
http://www.lebans.com/recnavbuttons.htm
RecordNavigationButtons is an MDB containing code to replace the
standard Navigation Buttons. The custom buttons exactly emulate the
standard navigation bar including the autorepeat property.
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HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.


"John S. Ford, MD" wrote in message
...
I'm coding in Access 97. Because I needed to customize the way a

particular
form navigates through records, I created and coded my own record

navigation
buttons. This works fine except for one thing. I'd like them to

behave the
same way the "real" navigation buttons work when the user keeps one of

them
down: automatically repeating.

In the Acc97 help files, the Auto Repeat property of a command button

is
described. It is specifically stated that despite setting it to

"Yes", if
the event handler changes the current record, the Auto Repeat property

has
no effect. Well, they weren't lying!

Is there any way to get around this?

John



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Old January 15th, 2005, 11:12 PM
John S. Ford, MD
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Thanks Rob. That was easy enough!

John

You just need to specify the name of the form to use....in your case:

DoCmd.GoToRecord acDataForm, Parent.Name, acNext

DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acNext


where I'm refering to the parent form that the subform is sitting on?

John






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Old January 15th, 2005, 11:15 PM
John S. Ford, MD
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Stephen, I sure wish I'd been aware of your pre-coded record navigation
buttons before I started coding them myself! Yours look exactly like what
I'm looking for. Thanks,

John

"Stephen Lebans"
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As Allen said, stick your CommandButtons on a SubForm. Sample code is
he
http://www.lebans.com/recnavbuttons.htm HTH


Stephen Lebans



 




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