Drag'n'dropping between forms

[A Ratcliffe]

Has Access (2002) got any built in support for setting up a drag'n'drop
ability, or will I have to code it specifically?

Some obvious areas (though there are many more)

External:
Dragging a Company Contact/Address across to Word, so it drops into the
document as the Company name and address.

Internal:
Dragging inventory items on one form onto another which generates a re-order
for those particular items.

There will be ways to do this manually as well, for accesibility, and those
who don't want to use the mouse.

Also, is there any way to override the formatting that Access applies when
you copy a record from a form/subform, and then paste it - for example,
currently if you were to paste into a text/rtf application, it appears as:-

Field1 Field2 Field3 Field-etc
Value1 Value2 Value3 Value-etc

I know how I'd do this in a C++ program, but not in Access.

Yours,

Ann-Marie Ratcliffe
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Arvin Meyer]

Access, being an MDI interface, doesn't really support Drag and Drop.
Stephen Lebans has done some significant work with Drag and Drop sorting in
list boxes:

http://www.lebans.com/vb_listbox.htm
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[A Ratcliffe]

You seem to be suggesting that MDI and Drag'n'Drop are mutually exclusive.
I've been developing Win32 applications in C++ for years, and having one
does not discount the other (They are orientated around two different
aspects of Windows).

However, from what you say about Access not really supporting it, it looks
like I'll have to roll my own. I'll have a look at Stephen Lebans method at
a starting point.

Yours,

Ann-Marie Ratcliffe
(e-mail address removed)