What makes good design?

[isladogs]

Mick
AFAIK all automatic form resizing is intended for use at the same or higher resolution.
If you think about it, the reason is obvious. Scaling down would risk controls not all fitting on the screen

 

[Dreamweaver]

Mick
AFAIK all automatic form resizing is intended for use at the sam or higher resolution.
If you think about it, the reason is obvious. Scaling down would risk controls not all fitting on the screen

Yeah get you there I have been trying to make mine smaller so they fit most screens that one I had worked perfect you entered the develpoment screen res into the call and it worked a treat now it still complies but just wont work at least if it broke I might stand a very very very small chance of fixing it.

 

[AccessBlaster]

AB
Am I right in thinking the 2 forms were based on one of the MS templates provided with Access?

Absolutely, Employee Details popup. I encourage all novice builders to utilize the Microsoft template gallery for ideas, its a wealth of knowledge I believe to be under utilized.

 

[isladogs]

In terms of form layout and appearance I agree with you.
However many of the templates include features that most developers recommend should be avoided such as table lookups, multivalued/attachment/calculated fields and embedded macros.

So my advice is to look at the design but ignore the structure of the database templates

 

[AccessBlaster]

In terms of form layout and appearance I agree with you.
However many of the templates include features that most developers recommend should be avoided such as table lookups, multivalued/attachment/calculated fields and embedded macros.

So my advice is to look at the design but ignore the structure of the database templates

That maybe true, but who am I to question the expert developers at Microsoft. Those folks operate at a very high level.

My main goal is to be productive, that's why I build.

 

[isladogs]

The templates are supplied to show off the 'latest features' whether good practice or otherwise. Interesting that the Web database templates are still available despite these being deprecated well over a year ago.