Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1013 The section titled “Developing Custom Access Ribbons” later in this chapter discusse ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1014 Only one option in the SplitButton list can be selected. As soon as an item in t ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1015 FIGURE 29.6 The Gallery provides the user with a preview of the options. SuperTips O ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1016 FIGURE 29.8 A custom ribbon built for the Collectible Mini Cars database Tabs La ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1017 Controls In Figure 29.8, each group contains a variety of controls. For instance, th ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1018 Figure 29.9 shows the Access 2010 tabbed interface and how the tabs maintain the ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1019 FIGURE 29.11 You can easily add new commands to the Quick Access Toolbar. Command ad ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1020 The Quick Access toolbar designer also contains up and down arrows to the right ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1021 FIGURE 29.12 The Ribbon Designer is a new feature in Access 2010. Command Category d ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1022 FIGURE 29.13 Renaming a custom group and setting the group’s icon If the changes ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1023 Developing Custom Access Ribbons Ribbons are not represented by a programmable objec ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1024 Here is an example. The following XML statements define a button control on a ri ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1025 FIGURE 29.14 An error message thrown by a custom Access ribbon The Ribbon Hierarchy ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1026 One of the principles employed in Access ribbons is that there is virtually no l ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1027 Step 2: Write the callback routines Before writing any callback code for Access ribb ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1028 The callback procedure for the check box uses the pressed parameter to determine ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1029 Case “lblCompanyLocation” label = “Location: “ & DLookup(“City”, “tblContacts”) ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1030 The ID field just keeps track of the ribbons in the table. The RibbonName is use ...

Chapter 29: Customizing Access Ribbons 1031 The ribbon produced with this XML is shown in Figure 29.17. FIGURE 29.17 The simple ...

Part IV: Professional Database Development 1032 FIGURE 29.18 Copying the XML to USysRibbons and naming the new ribbon FIGURE 29. ...