Creating a Form for a Touch Screen Monitor

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Bill Humphreys via AccessMonster.com

Hello,

I am creating a form for a touch screen monitor. The normal control buttons
for drop down menus are too small for use with fingers (vs. a mouse).

Does anyone have a suggestion, since I can't seem to enlarge the control
buttons on drop down menus?

One idea is to create custom buttons that run code to produce a drop down
selection list. However, I'm not sure how to do this.

Thank you. If you can, please email me to let me know something's been posted.
Email: HumphreysB[AT]San-Clemente[DOT]org

Bill Humphreys
 
Hi Bill,

I feel your pain.

We use a touch screen POS system at one of our store locations
and this is a problem on a couple of areas. Thankfully, the system
is connected to a computer in the office where I can add/edit/delete
menu items and employees with a real mouse and keyboard.

Your idea of creating a button that will drop down a list is certainly
a good one. Sample code would be like this on the command button's
click event to drop the selection list down:

Private Sub cmdDropDownList_Click()
Me.cboMyComboBox.SetFocus
Me.cboMyComboBox.Dropdown
End Sub

Something else you might consider is changing the screen resolution.
When this program is running, it changes the resolution to be really
BIG so the controls are easier to handle. Maybe that might help in
your situation.

A lot of times we just resort to the old "eraser on the pencil technique."
:-)

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Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
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