Recent content by DickyP

Had an even better one today - Went to log in to one of my credit card's web site and they had swapped the position of the 'Continue' and 'Go Back' buttons during the login process. Everything else appeared unchanged just the buttons. Luckily the Continue was still the default if you use the...

After almost thirty years of programming for a living and enjoying nearly all of it, I kept going with Access to 'keep-my-hand-in'. My Access lottery db I started when running a syndicate at work back in the days of Access 2 and it has been, changing, expanding (but not necessarily improving)...

I must admit I have abandoned using Edge because every time it upgrades silly thing happen. Gone back to using Chrome.

Best of all reasons - FUN. I enjoy keeping records.

Simple reply - Yes. On the NL website for each game you can download (as CSV) the Results History for the last 180 days. I do this then have routines to import them into Access to process them. The change of file name prevents this happening.

The perfect reason for using a decimal data type in your dbms, and one of the reasons Access needs a native decimal data type. You will always get a consistent answer (even if it isn't perfect).

This may be a thread which hasn't been edited in a while but such problems just don't go away. My latest annoyance is the UK National Lottery once again where after a re-vamp the drawhistory download for just one of the games has changed its filename to replace 2 of the 3 hyphens to spaces...

I'm delighted that Isladogs pointed me in the direction of FormattedMsgBox and despite its marginally different behaviour am happily now using it. I am unable to find, however, any reference to how or why it works and what exactly Eval is doing in this case. Can enyone help?

Of course we will move on: the decisions have been made. The points in your bulleted list are all laudable but don't explain a hugely intrusive title and removal of the title bar. And anyway the highlighted heading was always optional so dislike was catered for.

Can make arguments for both. Down the pub it would be great fun to argue this for hours - unfortunately no so much so here, so I won't bother to take it further. 😄

One app being ruined is enough! I re-iterate one of my posts above - 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'. The new MsgBox is proof of this. It wasn't broke but it was 'fixed' anyway nd now doesn't work - no bolded first line.

The title of this thread caused me chuckle - surely 'Fake AI' is a tautology. Obviously correct usage in this case, however.

The new style message box might be acceptable if it still allowed the bolding of the first line of the message. This not being there alters the logic of messages for people who use the split message features abeit WizHook or FormattedMsgBox. The logic of its use is (for people who used the...

Have never needed to use Helpfile and Context (thankfully), but thanks for the warning.

The German system is a bit of a hybrid: compulsory insurance, normally taken from your pay! You want more than the basics, you pay. It's not quite as simlpe as that in reality, of course.