Toolbars/Commanbar help

[Guest]

Can anyone tell me, if using Access 2003, you can change the picture on a
command bar button to a bitmap .jpg etc. other than those provided
internally? I have searched long and hard to no avail. I am open to
alternate suggestions or examples of other solutions on how to accomplish
this task by other means. Thanks so much for your replies.

 

[Alex Dybenko]

Hi,
You can build your own custom toolbar, with buttons you need, and then show
it in your application instead of built-in toolbar

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http://alexdyb.blogspot.com
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[Guest]

Alex:
Thanks for the response. Can you please be a little more specific about
this solution. How do I go about building a custom toolbar? As a form? Any
further help or links to any examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Barry

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Yes, you can paste in your own designs.

Just bring up your favorite picture editor. Re-size the image to 16x16
pixels.

Do a "select" all..and then "copy" to the clipboard.

In ms-access, you then right click a menu bar, and select customize. You
then at this point add new commend buttons, or a new menu (if you need
cascading menu bar).

when "customize" mode, you can right click on any command button.and then
select "paste". I also usually use the built in icon editor to "touch up"
the paste..as often it not quite right. The icon editor is built into
ms-access.

If you look at the following screen shot...you can see well that I created a
complete custom menu system for ms-access...

note the custom icons are ones I simply "pasted" into ms-access menu bars..

http://www.kallal.ca/ridestutorialp/busmanage.htm

 

[Guest]

Albert:
Thanks for the response. I have tried it and it works very well. I greatly
appreciate your help.

Thanks again,
Barry