Form styles

[Guest]

Although MS Access has several form styles, are others available? Is it
possible to create custom styles? (Some of those Microsoft includes seem a
bit hokey.)
Thanks!

 

[Rick Brandt]

Although MS Access has several form styles, are others available? Is
it possible to create custom styles? (Some of those Microsoft
includes seem a bit hokey.)
Thanks!

All the "styles" are is a wizard automatically setting a bunch of form
properties that all can be set just as easily set manually. The most
notable thing from the styles is that the picture property of the form is
set to some canned bitmap file. You can also set that property yourself to
just about any image file you want.

Most serious developers avoid the picture property anyway as it just makes
your file bigger (and your right they mostly scream "amateur"). Clean and
functional is the better approach.

 

[Albert D.Kallal]

Actually, my 2 cents of comments on this is that I don't use any of the
style..

In fact, clean forms, with out any funny colors, or styles seems to be the
best....

Here is some forms (screen shots) without any styles used..and they are jane
plane for the most part...

http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/Articles/Grid.htm