Rich text controls in Access 2003

[Guest]

The rich text active X control was removed in Access 2003 and I have not
found a suitable replacement for this function. Forms that used to work in
Access 2002 don't work any more. I find it very frustrating when features
are REMOVED from a product. Why did this happen? Is there a solution?

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

The rich text active X control was removed in Access 2003 and I have
not found a suitable replacement for this function. Forms that used
to work in Access 2002 don't work any more. I find it very
frustrating when features are REMOVED from a product. Why did this
happen? Is there a solution?

I've no idea why the control would have been removed, because I don't
have A2003, but you may find a good replacement in Stephen Lebans' RTF2
control. You can get it from his web site at www.lebans.com .

 

[Guest]

Thanks - a great suggestion and it works perfectly. The website is pretty
awesome.

 

[Stephen Lebans]

It's a security issue. I cannot find an English KB article but here is a
post in french from a MS PSS empoyee with a detailed explanation and a
ref to a french KB article. I'll translate it for you using
Babelfish...sorry if there are any mistakes!


http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=u...
%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26q%3Dlebans%2B-EC
KANKAR%2BActiveX%2Barticle%2B2003

From: JBL ([email protected])
Subject: Richtextbox access 2003


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Newsgroup: microsoft.public.fr.access
Date: 2003-11-26 23:16:53 PST


Hello, Somebody can it explain me why the contr
RichTextBox of my base of donn E programm E under access 2002 are not
accept are by access 2003? Thank you very much JBL
Message 2 in thread
From: Benoit Compoint [ ms ] ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Richtextbox access 2003


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Newsgroup: microsoft.public.fr.access
Date: 2003-11-27 01:15:18 PST


Hello, RichTextBox control comprises access
methods to the files (in particular LoadFile and SaveFile) which make
it potentially dangerous within the framework of a Web. application
For this Microsoft reason prevents its execution in Internet To
explore by using the method described in the base of Microsoft
knowledge (technical article 240797), by fixing the value of the entry
"Compatibility Flags" in the following under-key of the base of


register: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{3B7C8860-D78F-101B-B9B5-04021C009402}
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;FR;240797


Microsoft reinforced the safety of Microsoft Access in
the version 2003. One of the additional safety measures is that
Access 2003 holds account of the restrictions forced on Internet To


explore in the under-key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility an administrator of the Windows station
can modify the value of this entry "Compatibility Flags". But I
disadvise to you making it since this would weaken the safety offered
by Access 2003 and Internet To explore. I rather advise you to
give up format rtf with the profit of a more recent format:
HTML. You could then use, for example, control ActiveX
"WebBrowser control" to post the text formatted in HTML. Benoit
Hello, Somebody can it
explain me why RichTextBox
controls of my base of data programmed under access 2002 are not
accepted by access 2003? Thank you very much JBL

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