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- NEWUTIL.MDA ver 1.0 - New and Improved MS Access Toolbar
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- Eric Marlow
- Coopers & Lybrand - Technical Advisory Services
- Denver, CO
- CompuServe ID - 73444,2544
- November 26, 1993
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- Background
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- After designing several applications using MS Access, I discovered that many of the
- commands I use on a regular basis were located several levels deep in the menu structure
- (i.e. Aligning Controls on Forms and Reports). Several authors have attempted to bring
- new functionality to the MS Access toolbar by modifying the MS Access library file
- UTILITY.MDA. After looking at these revisions, I decided I wanted even more !!
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- My modifications, located in the file NEWUTIL.MDA are the result. I started with the
- thought that I could design a "floating icon toolbar palette" such as those that are located in
- the ORDENTRY.MDB and FIRSTLIB.MDA (located on CS) examples. But this proved to
- be a difficult exercise in understanding Windows APIs (not something I recommend for
- those of us with little time or patience). NEWUTIL.MDA is a simple modification of
- UTILITY.MDA that utilizes new command buttons which call MS Access Basic functions
- that perform the DoMenuItem command. The biggest difficulty came in finding the 18 x 18
- BMP files that I could use as button icons (some are good, but if anyone has others I'd love
- to see them !).
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- Installation
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- The ZIP includes the following files:
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- Files Purpose
- newutil.mda New toolbar UTILITY for MS Access
- readme.txt This file
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- Installation
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- 1 - Using a ZIP extractor, decompress the file NEWUTIL.MDA and place it in your MS
- Access directory.
- 2 - Find the following section in the MSACCESS.INI file located in the WINDOWS
- subdirectory to include the following:
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- [Options]
- SystemDB=C:\ACCESS11\SYSTEM.MDA
- ;UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS11\UTILITY.MDA <= place a ";" at the start to comment out
- UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS11\NEWUTIL.MDA <= add this line
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- 3 - Start MS Access. You will notice that there are new icons on the MS Access toolbar.
- Most are self-explanatory, but if you have any questions - explore !! You may notice that
- an error message occurs if you cancel a dialog from one of the new buttons - don't worry, it's
- just a built-in error handling routine.
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- Legal & Disclaimer
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- NEWUTIL.MDA is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind. The user assumes the
- entire risk as to the accuracy and the use of this Microsoft Access Library Database.
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- NEWUTIL.MDA may be freely copied and distributed subject to the following conditions:
- 1) This document must accompany NEWUTIL.MDA; 2) NEWUTIL.MDA may not be
- distributed for profit.
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- You may feel free to modify NEWUTIL.MDA in any way. For curiosity's sake, my only
- request that I be made aware of any substantial modifications and that I may view the
- revisions.
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- Any and all comments are appreciated.
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- Enjoy !!
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- Eric
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- P.S. To any Microsoft employees who take suggestions as to future enhancements of
- Access - Please give us a user-definable toolbar such as those included in MS Word and
- Excel !!
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