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V. 5 of Helen Feddema's Custom Toolbar for Access
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NEWUTIL.MDA & NEWUTILV.MDA utility libaries are featured in
"Customize Your Toolbars" by Helen Feddema in the May 93 issue
of Smart Access
The NEWUTILS.MDA and NEWUTILV.MDA libraries are replacements
for UTILITY.MDA, featuring new buttons for the Access toolbars
(Print, Save and others). Most are self-explanatory: the Save
button features a disk; the printer button a printer; the
object alignment diamond arrowheads show how an object would be
moved to align with another. The tool on the main database
window with a small table and the letter A runs the Analyzer
macro (which you will have to install first before you can use
it -- see the file PSSKB.TXT that was placed in your ACCESS
directory for more details).
NEWUTILS.MDA is designed for use with SuperVGA and higher
resolution screens. All toolbars except for the Form Design
and Report Design toolbars are unaffected by screen resolution.
The three form and report design alignment tools at the far
right of the screen, however, will be unavailable at standard
VGA resolution. Note: all the toolbars are still usable at
standard VGA resolution, you just can't see some of the tools.
For toolbars designed for VGA, use NEWUTILV.MDA instead.
NEWUTILV.MDA replaces the Form & Report Design toolbars with
versions that are visible in standard VGA res also. I (Paul
Litwin) made this new version. I was able to do this by
eliminating some of the dead space between certain tools to
make room for one more icon. Then, instead of using four
regular size alignment icons, I made four tiny alignment
buttons and arranged them in a diamond. Helen Feddema figured
out how to get arrowheads on the tiny buttons. This object
alignment diamond was so useful that we placed it on the SVGA
toolbar as well, making room for three new tools on that
toolbar.
To use either toolbar, open your MSACCESS.INI file (in the
Windows directory) in a text editor such as Notepad and replace
the reference to UTILITY.MDA in the [Options] section with
NEWUTILS.MDA (or NEWUTILV.MDA). It's best to "comment out" the
reference to UTILITY.MDA so that the new [Options] section
looks like one of these two examples (the latter example
assumes you are using the VGA version of the library):
[Options]
SystemDB=C:\ACCESS\SYSTEM.MDA
;UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\UTILITY.MDA
UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\NEWUTILS.MDA
-----or------
[Options]
SystemDB=C:\ACCESS\SYSTEM.MDA
;UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\UTILITY.MDA
UtilityDB=C:\ACCESS\NEWUTILV.MDA
v. 4.0 Changes
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Fixed problem with Query Design Save
Placed buttons in the same positions on all toolbars (just one
exception: Print button on Report toolbar)
Added Size to Fit button (Jim Ferguson, this is for you) to
Form and Report design toolbars
Added Windows API Utilities module (so these functions are
always available).
v. 5.0 Changes
--------------
Made separate SVGA and VGA versions (Paul Litwin made the VGA
modifications).
Removed Windows API Utilities module (as some users were having
problems if they already were using this module)
Made zoom box font Fixedsys
VGA: replaced four object alignment tools with object alignment
diamond.
SVGA: replaced four object alignment tools with object
alignment diamond.
Added tools for Bring to Front, Send to Back, Size to Fit
Made procedure selection list box wider
Notes
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You cannot edit a library that is attached to Access. Thus, if
you wish to edit NEWUTILS.MDA or NEWUTILV.MDA after you have
attached it, you must exit Access, and move the semicolon from
the first "UtilityDB=" line to the second "UtilityDB=" line,
and persist through a few error messages about duplicate
procedure names when opening the library to edit.
Some users have reported problems with using these toolbars
with the following video boards/resolutions:
XGA
VGA with Tseng 4000 chipset at 32,768 colors
--Helen Feddema & Paul Litwin