Command Buttons Frustration

[Guest]

Hi

This email is primarily for the folks at Microsoft and us venting our frustration about the poor capabilities of command buttons features. We have reasearched the Knowledgebase, the MSDN Newsgroups, various web sites, alternative suggestions, etc. Ultimately, no matter what the results are we found that there is nothing one can do to really change the background color or text control features of command buttons.

The 3rd party options are "ok", but limited - most of them play around with bitmap options that still continue to leave the old command button border (lebans.com) or button painter was another reasonable one, but seemed like a lot work on our part to customize beyond what was there

Additionally, we came across an option that we thought would work well, which was to use ActiveX control buttons. That fixed our background and text color issue perfectly, but then caused us tremendous havoc in the forms because On Click was no longer available and we had to use the On Enter option - which did nothing but give us errors

No, the fix to this is with Microsoft. We have spent good money on Developer tools like VS.Net, Office Developers, not to mention countless other licensing fees and we get stuck on what seems to be a simple problem. I'm sure once a fix is available, we'll have to pay for an upgrade too!

How is it possible that you cannot allow us to modify the background and text color options of command buttons?????? "we don't git this!" There are enough posting of this problem to warrant a change, don't you think???

Sincerely and pleasantly frustrated!!

 

[Michel Walsh]

Hi,


You should get a better chance to be heard by Microsoft if you post in
their "Contact Us" -suggestion box of their main web page.


An ActiveX control onClick should have been exposed, as do the FMS inc.
one (www.fmsinc.com), as far as memory serves.



Hoping it may help,
Vanderghast, Access MVP

Hi,

This email is primarily for the folks at Microsoft and us venting our

frustration about the poor capabilities of command buttons features. We
have reasearched the Knowledgebase, the MSDN Newsgroups, various web sites,
alternative suggestions, etc. Ultimately, no matter what the results are we
found that there is nothing one can do to really change the background color
or text control features of command buttons.

The 3rd party options are "ok", but limited - most of them play around

with bitmap options that still continue to leave the old command button
border (lebans.com) or button painter was another reasonable one, but seemed
like a lot work on our part to customize beyond what was there.

Additionally, we came across an option that we thought would work well,

which was to use ActiveX control buttons. That fixed our background and
text color issue perfectly, but then caused us tremendous havoc in the forms
because On Click was no longer available and we had to use the On Enter
option - which did nothing but give us errors.

No, the fix to this is with Microsoft. We have spent good money on

Developer tools like VS.Net, Office Developers, not to mention countless
other licensing fees and we get stuck on what seems to be a simple problem.
I'm sure once a fix is available, we'll have to pay for an upgrade too!?

How is it possible that you cannot allow us to modify the background and

text color options of command buttons?????? "we don't git this!" There are
enough posting of this problem to warrant a change, don't you think????

 

[Stephen Lebans]

If it bothers you this much you must have come across the solution using
a CommandButton and a Label control.

Set the CommandButton to Transparent.
Place a Label control behind the CommandButton with the desired Caption
and BackColor. Set it's SpecialEffect prop to Flat.
In the CommandButton's MouseDown event set the Label control's
SpecialEffect prop to Sunken.
In the CommandButton's MouseUp event set the Label control's
SpecialEffect prop to Flat.

You could easily write a small bit of code to do this programmatically
for you at runtime.

--
HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.

Hi,

This email is primarily for the folks at Microsoft and us venting our

frustration about the poor capabilities of command buttons features. We
have reasearched the Knowledgebase, the MSDN Newsgroups, various web
sites, alternative suggestions, etc. Ultimately, no matter what the
results are we found that there is nothing one can do to really change
the background color or text control features of command buttons.

The 3rd party options are "ok", but limited - most of them play around

with bitmap options that still continue to leave the old command button
border (lebans.com) or button painter was another reasonable one, but
seemed like a lot work on our part to customize beyond what was there.

Additionally, we came across an option that we thought would work

well, which was to use ActiveX control buttons. That fixed our
background and text color issue perfectly, but then caused us tremendous
havoc in the forms because On Click was no longer available and we had
to use the On Enter option - which did nothing but give us errors.

No, the fix to this is with Microsoft. We have spent good money on

Developer tools like VS.Net, Office Developers, not to mention countless
other licensing fees and we get stuck on what seems to be a simple
problem. I'm sure once a fix is available, we'll have to pay for an
upgrade too!?

How is it possible that you cannot allow us to modify the background

and text color options of command buttons?????? "we don't git this!"
There are enough posting of this problem to warrant a change, don't you
think????

 

[Gourmet10]

Here, here!!! I agree. Or is it that Microsoft has to
have that last tiny bit of control over us!!! )

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

This email is primarily for the folks at Microsoft and

us venting our frustration about the poor capabilities of
command buttons features. We have reasearched the
Knowledgebase, the MSDN Newsgroups, various web sites,
alternative suggestions, etc. Ultimately, no matter what
the results are we found that there is nothing one can do
to really change the background color or text control
features of command buttons.

The 3rd party options are "ok", but limited - most of

them play around with bitmap options that still continue
to leave the old command button border (lebans.com) or
button painter was another reasonable one, but seemed
like a lot work on our part to customize beyond what was
there.

Additionally, we came across an option that we thought

would work well, which was to use ActiveX control
buttons. That fixed our background and text color issue
perfectly, but then caused us tremendous havoc in the
forms because On Click was no longer available and we had
to use the On Enter option - which did nothing but give
us errors.

No, the fix to this is with Microsoft. We have spent

good money on Developer tools like VS.Net, Office
Developers, not to mention countless other licensing fees
and we get stuck on what seems to be a simple problem.
I'm sure once a fix is available, we'll have to pay for
an upgrade too!?

How is it possible that you cannot allow us to modify

the background and text color options of command
buttons?????? "we don't git this!" There are enough
posting of this problem to warrant a change, don't you
think????