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MS Access Forum / ActiveX Controls / March 2004Command Buttons Frustration
Hi This email is primarily for the folks at Microsoft and us venting our frustration about the poor capabilities of command buttons features. We have reasearched the Knowledgebase, the MSDN Newsgroups, various web sites, alternative suggestions, etc. Ultimately, no matter what the results are we found that there is nothing one can do to really change the background color or text control features of command buttons. The 3rd party options are "ok", but limited - most of them play around with bitmap options that still continue to leave the old command button border (lebans.com) or button painter was another reasonable one, but seemed like a lot work on our part to customize beyond what was there Additionally, we came across an option that we thought would work well, which was to use ActiveX control buttons. That fixed our background and text color issue perfectly, but then caused us tremendous havoc in the forms because On Click was no longer available and we had to use the On Enter option - which did nothing but give us errors No, the fix to this is with Microsoft. We have spent good money on Developer tools like VS.Net, Office Developers, not to mention countless other licensing fees and we get stuck on what seems to be a simple problem. I'm sure once a fix is available, we'll have to pay for an upgrade too! How is it possible that you cannot allow us to modify the background and text color options of command buttons?????? "we don't git this!" There are enough posting of this problem to warrant a change, don't you think??? Sincerely and pleasantly frustrated!! Hi, You should get a better chance to be heard by Microsoft if you post in their "Contact Us" -suggestion box of their main web page. An ActiveX control onClick should have been exposed, as do the FMS inc. one (www.fmsinc.com), as far as memory serves. Hoping it may help, Vanderghast, Access MVP > Hi, > > This email is primarily for the folks at Microsoft and us venting our frustration about the poor capabilities of command buttons features. We have reasearched the Knowledgebase, the MSDN Newsgroups, various web sites, alternative suggestions, etc. Ultimately, no matter what the results are we found that there is nothing one can do to really change the background color or text control features of command buttons. > The 3rd party options are "ok", but limited - most of them play around with bitmap options that still continue to leave the old command button border (lebans.com) or button painter was another reasonable one, but seemed like a lot work on our part to customize beyond what was there. > Additionally, we came across an option that we thought would work well, which was to use ActiveX control buttons. That fixed our background and text color issue perfectly, but then caused us tremendous havoc in the forms because On Click was no longer available and we had to use the On Enter option - which did nothing but give us errors. > No, the fix to this is with Microsoft. We have spent good money on Developer tools like VS.Net, Office Developers, not to mention countless other licensing fees and we get stuck on what seems to be a simple problem. I'm sure once a fix is available, we'll have to pay for an upgrade too!? > How is it possible that you cannot allow us to modify the background and text color options of command buttons?????? "we don't git this!" There are enough posting of this problem to warrant a change, don't you think???? > Sincerely and pleasantly frustrated!!! If it bothers you this much you must have come across the solution using a CommandButton and a Label control. Set the CommandButton to Transparent. Place a Label control behind the CommandButton with the desired Caption and BackColor. Set it's SpecialEffect prop to Flat. In the CommandButton's MouseDown event set the Label control's SpecialEffect prop to Sunken. In the CommandButton's MouseUp event set the Label control's SpecialEffect prop to Flat. You could easily write a small bit of code to do this programmatically for you at runtime. -- HTH Stephen Lebans http://www.lebans.com Access Code, Tips and Tricks Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit. > Hi, > > This email is primarily for the folks at Microsoft and us venting our frustration about the poor capabilities of command buttons features. We have reasearched the Knowledgebase, the MSDN Newsgroups, various web sites, alternative suggestions, etc. Ultimately, no matter what the results are we found that there is nothing one can do to really change the background color or text control features of command buttons. > The 3rd party options are "ok", but limited - most of them play around with bitmap options that still continue to leave the old command button border (lebans.com) or button painter was another reasonable one, but seemed like a lot work on our part to customize beyond what was there. > Additionally, we came across an option that we thought would work well, which was to use ActiveX control buttons. That fixed our background and text color issue perfectly, but then caused us tremendous havoc in the forms because On Click was no longer available and we had to use the On Enter option - which did nothing but give us errors. > No, the fix to this is with Microsoft. We have spent good money on Developer tools like VS.Net, Office Developers, not to mention countless other licensing fees and we get stuck on what seems to be a simple problem. I'm sure once a fix is available, we'll have to pay for an upgrade too!? > How is it possible that you cannot allow us to modify the background and text color options of command buttons?????? "we don't git this!" There are enough posting of this problem to warrant a change, don't you think???? > Sincerely and pleasantly frustrated!!! |
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