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Brad Pears
I have been asked to provide a more grahical front end for a partucular
application which is currently using a manual line by line entry for
selection of windows and doors to put into a house... This data is used for
home pricing...
The request is "why can't the user simply select the actual window/door form
a "listview" control using icon view - and then builkd the detail list
behind the scnese instead of having the user type in each code manually
etc...etc...??" To do this I would want the listview would be loaded with
thumbnails of the actual windows and doors in the system. We can get our
hands on the appropriate pics to sue for this. The user would then simply
scroll through the listview selecting each window/door they want to put into
the house. When finished, they would be able to review ONLY the selections
they have made and if everything is OK, then I will build a detail list of
those selections in a table behind the scenes which includes the codes and
qty's of each item they selected. To select a qty, they want the user to be
able to right click the thumbnail image in the listview control and select a
"Qty" property - where they would select the qty required. They default is
always "one", but they could select whatever qty they want.
I anticipate that the window/door thumbs will be located on a shared server
drive in a hierarchical directory structure so that the listview loading
code will be able to determine where exactly to find the thumb for that
particular window/door based on the window/door type and size. This would
save me from ahving to add anaothe rfield to the master window/door table -
indicating where exactly the thumb is and what the name is - as the thumb
would always be named appropriately based on window/door type and size when
the thumb is created and placed in the appropriate directory by a user.
Questions...
1) Does anyone have some code that would give me a really good example of
loading a listview using icon view to do what I am requesting above?
2) Can one actually right click an icon in a listview to get a menu where
the user can then select various properties to change (i.e. qty of
window/door required??)
3) Is it possible to display other info below each of the thumbs as they are
loaded into the listview?? Thus info would obviously come from teh master
window/door table...
I am completely new to using the listview control in Access and any help in
the above matters would be much appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Brad
application which is currently using a manual line by line entry for
selection of windows and doors to put into a house... This data is used for
home pricing...
The request is "why can't the user simply select the actual window/door form
a "listview" control using icon view - and then builkd the detail list
behind the scnese instead of having the user type in each code manually
etc...etc...??" To do this I would want the listview would be loaded with
thumbnails of the actual windows and doors in the system. We can get our
hands on the appropriate pics to sue for this. The user would then simply
scroll through the listview selecting each window/door they want to put into
the house. When finished, they would be able to review ONLY the selections
they have made and if everything is OK, then I will build a detail list of
those selections in a table behind the scenes which includes the codes and
qty's of each item they selected. To select a qty, they want the user to be
able to right click the thumbnail image in the listview control and select a
"Qty" property - where they would select the qty required. They default is
always "one", but they could select whatever qty they want.
I anticipate that the window/door thumbs will be located on a shared server
drive in a hierarchical directory structure so that the listview loading
code will be able to determine where exactly to find the thumb for that
particular window/door based on the window/door type and size. This would
save me from ahving to add anaothe rfield to the master window/door table -
indicating where exactly the thumb is and what the name is - as the thumb
would always be named appropriately based on window/door type and size when
the thumb is created and placed in the appropriate directory by a user.
Questions...
1) Does anyone have some code that would give me a really good example of
loading a listview using icon view to do what I am requesting above?
2) Can one actually right click an icon in a listview to get a menu where
the user can then select various properties to change (i.e. qty of
window/door required??)
3) Is it possible to display other info below each of the thumbs as they are
loaded into the listview?? Thus info would obviously come from teh master
window/door table...
I am completely new to using the listview control in Access and any help in
the above matters would be much appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Brad