Caps Lock / Windows Task Bar

[Damien McBain]

G'day,

If anyone can point me in the right direction here it'd be appreciated.
There are 2 things I'd like to be able to achieve (well, in the next release
of my fe ap anyway):
1/ Turn off the caps lock key on the user's keyboard when my ap starts;
2/ Stop windows from presenting a separate Task Bar button/icon for each
open object in the db. I want only 1 to appear. I can't even find this
toggle in Access.

All client machines running win2ksp4, Access2k. The ap is run as an mde on
each client, the b/e is on a LAN relative to the clients.

cheers

Damo

 

[Mike Labosh]

1/ Turn off the caps lock key on the user's keyboard when my ap starts;

You really should not be doing that. The state of the caps lock key is the
user's decision, not yours, but if you do want to control that, there might
be an API function for it.

2/ Stop windows from presenting a separate Task Bar button/icon for each
open object in the db. I want only 1 to appear. I can't even find this
toggle in Access.

Tools -> Options -> View -> Windows in Taskbar

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Peace & happy computing,

Mike Labosh, MCSD

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[Wayne Morgan]

1) Try this link. Scroll down to "Keyboard State in VB6"
http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_system/keyboard/article.php/c4835/

2) Tools|Options|View tab, uncheck Windows in Taskbar. To do this in code:
Application.SetOption "ShowWindowsInTaskbar", False

 

[Damien McBain]

You really should not be doing that. The state of the caps lock key
is the user's decision, not yours, but if you do want to control
that, there might be an API function for it.

Some of them type everything in upper case which fills up the memo fields
(as they appear on the form / report) unnecessarily. I know I can change it
as they type it, but I thought it may be more effective to just change the
state of the key.

Tools -> Options -> View -> Windows in Taskbar

Thanks - I want to do it with code, Wayne has answered this one.

 

[Damien McBain]

1) Try this link. Scroll down to "Keyboard State in VB6"
http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_system/keyboard/article.php/c4835/

2) Tools|Options|View tab, uncheck Windows in Taskbar. To do this in
code: Application.SetOption "ShowWindowsInTaskbar", False

Thanks Wayne, spot on.

cheers

Damo