continous forms in VB

[J. Miller]

In Access you can set the property of a form to 'continuous' which will
display all records with a scroll bar on the right. Is there an equivalent
to doing this on a form in VB and if so how?

Many thanks.


Jeff

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

I don't believe so, Jeff. Many VB programmers use Grid controls for this
purpose.

 

[MikeB]

In Access you can set the property of a form to 'continuous' which will
display all records with a scroll bar on the right. Is there an equivalent
to doing this on a form in VB and if so how?

In VB6, look at the DataRepeater component...

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

You can in VB use the "clone" method, and the resulting contorlArray does
let you repeat controls.

However, those controls are not data bound.

Unfortunately, continues forms is one of those incredible features that
ms-access has, and separates it from the bunch.

I have a few nice screen shots of ms-access continues forms..and I mention
how they are so much better then what you have in VB..Take a quick look at:

http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/Articles/Grid.htm

The above sceen shots are so easy in ms-access...and would be tons of work
in VB.

 

[MikeB]

You can in VB use the "clone" method, and the resulting contorlArray does
let you repeat controls.

However, those controls are not data bound.

Uh... With DataRepeater, you create User Control that is DataBound and the DataRepeater Does the
Repeating of the control....

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...bcon98/html/vbconusingdatarepeatercontrol.asp

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Uh... With DataRepeater, you create User Control that is DataBound and the DataRepeater Does the
Repeating of the control....

I never did use that control (when it came out...it was too unstable...or
the developers did not know how to use it!). The DataRepetater works well
for text boxes. You start placing in buttons, check boxes, and combos...and
once again each control generally still requires a good bit of code to make
it "work".

So, that data repeater requires at least double or triple the work of a
access sub-form. However, the control does repeat data bound controls...and
I have to concede that!