 Form Converter Help Contents

Using Form Converter

About Form Converter

Technical Support


Using Form Converter

 Click the Convert Selected Form button or double-click a Form name in the displayed list to start the Form and Code conversion process.  When the Form conversion process is complete, a dialog  will display the name and destination directory of the newly created Visual Basic Form.    Exit the Form Converter utility and load the Form into Visual Basic in the usual way.

 Click the Convert All Forms button to convert all Forms and their associated code to Visual Basic.  When the conversion process is complete, a dialog will display the number of Forms converted, and the name and destination directory  of the newly created Visual Basic Form(s).   Exit the Form Converter utility and load the Form into Visual Basic in the usual way.

 Click the Help button to display this information.

 Click the Exit button to exit the program.


About Form Converter

The Form Converter utility is useful for quickly converting an MS Access application to Visual Basic without having to re-design all the Visual Basic Forms from scratch, or copy code for individual controls one at a time.

The Form Converter copies all the controls and their associated code from an Access Form and converts the Form to a Visual Basic Form.   The converted Form is saved in text format and can then be loaded into Visual Basic in the usual way.

Access controls are converted to match their Visual Basic counterparts.   Where there is no equivalent Visual Basic control, for example, the Graph, Page Break and SubForm/SubReport controls, the control is not converted.

A Picture Box control is converted without its picture source.

An Option Group control when converted will be in front of any of it's bound controls.   Move the control or use the Send to Back menu option to reveal any underlying controls.

The code for the converted Visual Basic Form will have to be edited and compiled before it will run in the Visual Basic environment.


Technical Support

Thank you for using the Form Converter program.

This is a fully functional utility created by a programmer for programmers.    If you find the program useful, please register it.

Should you encounter any problems using the Form Converter, please contact Lennox Chambers by email on CompuServe at 104372,1246 or via the Internet at 104372.1246@CompuServe.com

Your feedback is appreciated.


Dialog

A window that displays information.


Directory

Converted Access Forms are saved to the current default directory with .FRM extensions.


Control
Controls

A Graphical object such as a text box that is placed on a Form to display data or perform an action.   A bound control on an Access Form is linked to a field in an underlying table or query.


Register

Please register the Form Converter utility if you find it useful.


Send To Back

Visual Basic Edit menu command used to place one control behind another.


Loading Forms

Use the Visual Basic File menu Add File command to add converted Forms into a new project or simply open the .FRM file directly from the Windows File Manager or Explorer.