Miscellaneous Samples II

Held-Office

URL: http://www.held-office.de

Bernd Held provides useful links, tips, tools and add-ins for Microsoft Excel, Access, Office and Works.

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Reading Text Files

URL: http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0057.htm

In addition to "standardizing" the handling of files, this class also gives the programmer a "look ahead" and "look behind" feature that allows the programmer to "see" the next line before it's actually used, and the last line it worked with.

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Sub-classing Entities

URL: http://www.mvps.org/access/tables/tbl0013.htm

This sample borrows a technique from object-oriented design, and sub-class the entities. In relational terms, you set up multiple tables: a master table, which contains the information that is common to all entities, and subsidiary tables that contain the specific information for each type.

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Track IntelliMouse's Wheel

URL: http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0036.htm

In Access 97, the IntelliMouse's wheel has the effect of paging through records. Often times, it might be necessary to track how many records, forward or backward, the user has moved by using the wheel.

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TWAIN-Scanner steuern

URL: http://www.freeaccess.de/downloaddetails.asp?id=8

How to control a scanner with the integrated TWAIN interface from Access.

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