Change button on click event

[Guest]

Greetings all. Is there a way to change the on click event of a command
button with the on click event of another command button? I am using Access
2003. Hypothetically, If I have cmd1, cmd2, cmd3 and cmd4 is there a way to
have the on click event of cmd1, cmd2, and cmd3 to be something like:

Private sub cmd1_click
on error....
some events
me.cmd4.onclick="some events"
exit...
err...

I need to be able to change the onclick event of cmd4 for a different event
depending on whether cmd1, cmd2, or cmd3 is clicked first. I would greatly
appreciate any help.

 

[Allen Browne]

Set the button's On Click propert to the name of the function, not [Event
Procedure]. You can then assign it to a different function, e.g.:
Me.cmd4.OnClick = "=Function2()"

Of course you could approach the issue by adding a Select Case to the event
procedure, so it performed different operations under different conditions,
e.g.:

Private Sub cmd4_Click()
Select Case Me.cmd4.Caption
Case "Click Me to run function 1"
Call Function1()
Case "Click Me to run function 2"
Call Function2()
End Select
End Sub

 

[Guest]

Allen, thank you so much for your input. I did not mention that I am using
ADP with SQL server, so I do not know if that would have affected your
advice, and I did not think it would have mattered until I saw your solution
involved having the command button call a function. I never thought to
include a select statement. What I did was to add an unbound text box to the
form and to update its value based on which button I clicked, just as an
option group works. I was then able to use the select case statement you
suggested. Thanks again.

Set the button's On Click propert to the name of the function, not [Event
Procedure]. You can then assign it to a different function, e.g.:
Me.cmd4.OnClick = "=Function2()"

Of course you could approach the issue by adding a Select Case to the event
procedure, so it performed different operations under different conditions,
e.g.:

Private Sub cmd4_Click()
Select Case Me.cmd4.Caption
Case "Click Me to run function 1"
Call Function1()
Case "Click Me to run function 2"
Call Function2()
End Select
End Sub

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Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia

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Greetings all. Is there a way to change the on click event of a command
button with the on click event of another command button? I am using
Access
2003. Hypothetically, If I have cmd1, cmd2, cmd3 and cmd4 is there a way
to
have the on click event of cmd1, cmd2, and cmd3 to be something like:

Private sub cmd1_click
on error....
some events
me.cmd4.onclick="some events"
exit...
err...

I need to be able to change the onclick event of cmd4 for a different
event
depending on whether cmd1, cmd2, or cmd3 is clicked first. I would
greatly
appreciate any help.