May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
30h 53m
English
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Access™ 2007 VBA Programmer's Reference
by Teresa Hennig, Rob Cooper, Geoffrey Griffith, Armen Stein
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M.5. Display Informative Form Captions
If you don't set your own form captions, Access just displays the form name there, as shown in Figure M-6.
Figure M.6. Figure m-6
This is a sure sign of a novice developer. You need to, at least, replace the caption with the name of your application. One nice additional touch for the caption is to indicate which back-end database you are currently using. That way, your users know instantly whether they're in the Production or Test database, for example.
You'll need a table in the back-end database to store systemwide configuration values. In this example, it is named tsysConfig_System, and it has a field containing the name of the database (see Figure M-7).
Figure M.7. Figure m-7
You also need a local table in the front-end to store static values for the application itself, as shown in Figure M-8. In the example, one of the fields is the name (title) of the application, suitable for showing on various forms throughout the system.
Figure M.8. Figure m-8
The code to set the caption is easy. It belongs in the Open event code behind every form:
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