'Altering' Access 2K Textbox Control

[Michael]

Hi !

I'm trying to 'alter' the access TextBox control to
achieve the following;

When the cursor is over the TextBox control I want
to display a button to the right of the TextBox control
that can be clicked.

The tricky bit is that I want to generate the button at
RUN-TIME so that I don't have to place a 'ghost' button
for the class to use on every form that needs this
functionality.

I have looked through samples on Steve Lebans site
(www.lebans.com) and his tooltip class seems to come
close to a solution...

Any help from anyone out there would be appreciated !!!

[Rick Brandt]

"Michael" <mc******@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi !

I'm trying to 'alter' the access TextBox control to
achieve the following;

When the cursor is over the TextBox control I want
to display a button to the right of the TextBox control
that can be clicked.

The tricky bit is that I want to generate the button at
RUN-TIME so that I don't have to place a 'ghost' button
for the class to use on every form that needs this
functionality.

I have looked through samples on Steve Lebans site
(www.lebans.com) and his tooltip class seems to come
close to a solution...

Just wondering if you've looked at using a Shortcut menu with a single item
on it. This is a feature easily applied to any control without any
programming at all. If you wanted it shown on MouseMove instead of
Right-Click it would require coding, but it would satisfy your requirement
to not have to place a hidden object at every location where you want the
feature.
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[Tom van Stiphout]

On 6 Nov 2003 04:50:15 -0800, mc******@netcomuk.co.uk (Michael) wrote:

In Access/VBA, I think the only way to create a control is to use
CreateControl. And that can only be called in design view.

If you don't like that, you'll have to call the Windows API, like
Lebans did. That requires a lot of knowledge about this API, and about
Access. Hooking those controls into the normal event processor, seems
impossible. The hidden button solution is looking better and better...

-Tom.

Hi !

I'm trying to 'alter' the access TextBox control to
achieve the following;

When the cursor is over the TextBox control I want
to display a button to the right of the TextBox control
that can be clicked.

The tricky bit is that I want to generate the button at
RUN-TIME so that I don't have to place a 'ghost' button
for the class to use on every form that needs this
functionality.

I have looked through samples on Steve Lebans site
(www.lebans.com) and his tooltip class seems to come
close to a solution...

Any help from anyone out there would be appreciated !!!