Customising the form size

I

Imran Ghani

Hi! I want to customize my form appearance when it is opened in restored
position. I want to customize its appearance according to my specification
and make its size such as to appear in the centre of the screen. Please guide
me about how to write the code to accomplish the task and can the other forms
in the application all be coded such so as to appear in the same position as
the main form is appearing. Thanks in advance.
 
E

ErezM via AccessMonster.com

hi
if you set the AutoCenter property to True then the form will be at the
center of the screen
if you set the Movable property to False then the user will not be able to
move it to any other place
if you set the MinMaxButtons property to None, the user will not be able to
minimize or maximize the form
if you set the BorderStyle property to Dialog, the user will not be able to
resize the form

if you want all of your forms to act the same, set their above properties to
be the same

Erez
 
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Imran Ghani

Hi Erez
Thanks for your helpful notes. I have created a form and also set its
autocenter property to yes, but when I resize it to restore position, the
form contents does not come in the centre of the form. If I try to change its
size in design mode, the contents does not come in center when form is
maximized. Kindly guide me about how to arrange the contents of the form in
the center of the screen, even its maximized or restored.
 
J

Jack Leach

when I resize it to restore position, the
form contents does not come in the centre of the form. If I try to change its
size in design mode, the contents does not come in center when form is
maximized. Kindly guide me about how to arrange the contents of the form in
the center of the screen, even its maximized or restored.
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In order to accomplish this you will need to the the Width and Height of the
form, and calculate where you want to place the controls based off of those.
The control Top and Left properties can be set (in Twips) to the desired
position via code.

The Width property of the form is fairly straightforward... Me.Width will
return the number of Twips wide the form is (1inch = 1440 Twips, but Pixels
require special handling).

The Height property is a bid more advanced... there actually is no Form
Height property. You need to calculate each Section height to get the total
form height.

Me.Section(0).Height + Me.Section(1).Height

If you have a header and footer, the header is (0), the detail is (1) and
the footer is (2). However, if you don't have these active then the detail
will be (0) and anything else will throw an error.

So all in all, to accomplish this, you'll be looking at a decent amount of
calculating and placing to get everything where you want it.

Personally, I think it's easier to keep all the controls based off the top
left of the form, and resize/reposition the form accordingly (using the
DoCmd.Move method).

hth

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Jack Leach
www.tristatemachine.com

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