Of Calculators and Access Fields

[jsanders]

Good Morning All,
Is there a way to somehow link the MS calculator to a control on a form. It would be nice if the user could use the calculator to add up items then paste the value in the field.

For example: when they do take offs (the counting of materials in construction) they could look at the drawings and using the calculator count all of the 2X4X104-5/8s.

Thanks folks,
Joe

 

[freakazeud]

Hi,
check this: http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/downloads.htm#C
Calculator form which you can use! I think it would be hard to integrate the windows calculator as you can't really control it programmatically. So either create your own one with code or use the above provided sample!
HTH
Good luck

 

[jsanders]

That’s funny as soon as I posted it I started think about how I would do it. Thanks for the link.

 

[freakazeud]

You're welcome.
Glad I could assist.
Good luck on future projects!