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    Reading data from another app

    Ok - slightly different post here but I'll chuck it out there like a fishing line and see if anyone has an opinion or idea. Moderators feel free to move this if required. I work with road condition data. We have a lot of information with regards to the attributes at given intervals down a...
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    Cascading Combos / Continuous Form

    Hello, Has anyone come up for a neat workaround for this? Re-sourcing the cascading combos is not a problem in itself, but it is on a continuous form. Was thinking perhaps a subform in each form on the continuous form perhaps? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Pete
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    Third party ListBox control handling images

    Does anybody have a link to a ListBox control that I can download to use on a form my A2K database that will be able to display images (or rather icons) as well as text? Regards, Pete
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    SSRS Pass web form value to report text box

    Gidday folks, What I'm trying to do is pass the values of a textbox on my web form to a textbox on my report. Here's what I've done so far (and I am open to suggestions of ways to do this better as I am a novice using Visual Studio 2005). I created a DataSet to a table in Access. I added...
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    Union query behaviour: Is it supposed to do that?

    I have a table tbl_Fixtures made up of: fixture_id team1_id team2_id ... ... ... A team id can appear in either team1 or team2 (depends on how the algorithm to compute who plays who calculates it). I want to know how many games a team plays, so I wrote 4 queries: qryTeam1Games: SELECT...
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    Which is quicker / better / more efficient?

    Using DAO in Excel connecting to an Access database, which is the better of these methods to get my recordset: a) Create the query in Access then connect to it using set rst = MyDB.OpenRecordset("MyQuery") or b) strSQL = "SELECT MyID, MyField, Count(MyNumber) as MyCount FROM MyTable" set...
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    Control formatting on a continuous form

    I think I know the answer to this but ... Using continuous forms, I want to use a slider control to display the value of a field. However, when I change the properties of the slider using the OnCurrent event, it changes the properties for all displayed (which I don't want). I do have a...
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    DAO in Excel and multiple recordsets

    I have 2 tables in 2 seperate databases that I want to "relate" and extract data from. How/any suggestions on how I can do this in Excel only? I can do it from multiple tables in one database fine but not sure how to use relate and use multiple tables from multiple databases. At the moment...
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    Send Keys to a specific application

    Gidday! I want to send keys to a specific application that is running, regardless of what the user is doing ... I was kinda hoping there might be some sort of API for this? Here's the background to this: I've got a lot of roading video data stored as avi's. One avi file contains many...
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    Zooming in and out of a picture

    Is there any way to zoom to specific extents of a picture in an image control in A2k? e.g. If I had a TIFF/JPG with dimensions of 30cm x 30cm and on a form / report I had an image control of 10cm x 5cm, is it possible to scale the image so my upper left scaled position in the picture is (15,8)...
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    Access / Excel / DAO / Data on Terminal Server

    Gidday, From within Excel, I was asked if I could automate a process to extract data from an Access database that resides on a terminal server on our domain. I can navigate to the server within our network through explorer ok. I found the database I wanted to get into and tried to open it and...
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    OpenRecordset on Linked Tables

    If anyone can explain: In A2k, when I try to use a recordset on a linked table (or a query based on a linked table), it spits out a "Run-time error '3061': Too few parameters. Expected 2" error. If I import that table fully (instead of linking), it works fine. I'm trying to create the...
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    View PDF in Report

    Hello all, I'm running into a problem when viewing a PDF in a report. The report is an A3 page oriented landscape. The PDF (which is a technical drawing) is 38.85cm by 9.65cm. However, when I insert it as an object, it only comes through at 29cm wide, and when I resize it, the image quality...
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