Looks at playing media files in Windows Media Player. Access Archon #138 Playing Media Files After (optionally) selecting a Media Path, and selecting an audio or video file, you can use the cmdPlayAudioFile or cmdPlayVideoFile buttons in the form footer to play the selected file. To illustrate two different ways of using the Windows […]
How to compare actual files in a folder with files names in a table. Access Archon #128 Introduction Thanks to AW reader, Keith Hungate, for suggesting the topic of this article. He wrote to ask if I could suggest a method for comparing file names stored in an Access table to actual files stored in […]
How to generate sequential dates automatically. Q: Richard Bryant writes: “I have made a diary in Access. I enter a month at a time from notes on my calendar. I have to enter each date of the month each time I make an entry. In Excel the dates can be put in sequentially automatically. Is […]
Several readers responded with their suggestions for determining if a database exists. Thomas Mount responded to my tip on finding out whether a file exists in WAW 6.07, with a more efficient method using the FileSystemObject: Function isFile(FileName as String) as Boolean isFile = _ CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”).FileExists(FileName) End Function This method is indeed more […]
How to document an application in Access. Q: Ashjan Al-Mahmeed would like to know what is the best practice of documenting an application in Access (using the documenter and other tools). A: I recommend Total Access Analyzer, which is available in versions for Access 97, 2000 and 2002. See the FMS Web site. I described […]