F. Scott Barker's Microsoft® Access 2000 Power Programming

Chapter 14. PROGRAMMING FOR POWER WITH ACTIVEX CONTROLS

IN THIS CHAPTER

• TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IMAGELIST CONTROL

• EMULATING THE WINDOWS 95 EXPLORER WITH THE LISTVIEW CONTROL

• DISPLAYING A TASK'S PROGRESS WITH THE PROGRESSBAR CONTROL

• TELLING IT LIKE IT IS WITH THE MICROSOFT RICH TEXTBOX CONTROL

• CREATING STATUS BARS FOR INDIVIDUAL FORMS WITH THE STATUSBAR CONTROL

• DOCKING TOOLBARS ON FORMS USING THE TOOLBAR CONTROL

ActiveX controls allow you to use controls that have been created outside of Access in your Access application. They are generally created to be used within a variety of development languages such as Visual Basic and Access.

ActiveX controls are now a common part of developing applications in Windows. Because this is the case, it is understood ...