darthcalis
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I haven't posted here for a while so Hello World!
My question is pretty much as in the title. I *thought* I was going to do something really easy in Access 2010. I have a generic list form that pops open when another form launches. It just reads a ComboBox on the main form of whichever form opens it to get the list data - makes it easy to see long lists without me having to add a list to every main form.
Anyway, I pop open my generic list form, no problem, position it on opening just to the right of the main form and make it the same height, correct width, etc, again no problem. So last thing I thought I'd do is whenever I move the main window I would move the pop up list window with it. Not like drag-and-drop, but I thought I would use the Form level On Mouse Up event so that when I release the mouse after moving the main window I could just calculate the new position of my list window and jump it over to it's new position - job done.
What a buggering nightmare! Under no circumstances can I get the form level mouse events to fire. Obviously header / footer and detail section mouse events are no problem, but they're no good to me as I am moving the window using it's frame. So after much fruitless searching of the internet I have come to the conclusion that there is no way to use the Form level mouse events to do this, so no easy way to do this.
So what are these events for, and how on earth do you trigger them? I am having trouble understanding the point of their existence! :banghead:
My question is pretty much as in the title. I *thought* I was going to do something really easy in Access 2010. I have a generic list form that pops open when another form launches. It just reads a ComboBox on the main form of whichever form opens it to get the list data - makes it easy to see long lists without me having to add a list to every main form.
Anyway, I pop open my generic list form, no problem, position it on opening just to the right of the main form and make it the same height, correct width, etc, again no problem. So last thing I thought I'd do is whenever I move the main window I would move the pop up list window with it. Not like drag-and-drop, but I thought I would use the Form level On Mouse Up event so that when I release the mouse after moving the main window I could just calculate the new position of my list window and jump it over to it's new position - job done.
What a buggering nightmare! Under no circumstances can I get the form level mouse events to fire. Obviously header / footer and detail section mouse events are no problem, but they're no good to me as I am moving the window using it's frame. So after much fruitless searching of the internet I have come to the conclusion that there is no way to use the Form level mouse events to do this, so no easy way to do this.
So what are these events for, and how on earth do you trigger them? I am having trouble understanding the point of their existence! :banghead:
