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From: TonyAntique via AccessMonster.com on 1 Jun 2010 14:42
I have succeeded in using Albert D Kallal's brilliant code to control a
Ribbon on a form.
The only problem I cannot solve is how to make some buttons invisible when
the form loads.
If I put the
meRib("btSearch").visible = False
in Form_Active or Form_Current, I get the runtime error '2475' - you entered
an expression that requires a form to be the active window.

Any suggestions would be great.

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From: Albert D. Kallal on 1 Jun 2010 15:17
In a nutsheell, that code is written to reduce what you need to supply
and the code assumes the current form has the focus.

However, the form is not techniclally loaded untill AFTER the on-load event.

My code assumes the current active form to do it's magic.

So, in place of meRib, use meRibA

meRibA("name of ribbon","name of contorl")

you could also pick up the name of the current ribbon as:

meRibA(me.Ribbon,"name of contorl")

or even use me.Name, as we useally name the ribbon same as the form name.

The issue/problem is likely that the on-current code runs before the ribbon
code.

My best "spider sense" suggestion without going deep into this would be that
as
a 2nd choice if above can't work is to create a form level var like:


dim bolOnLoadDone as boolean

Then, in your on-current code

if bolLoadDone then
' code here to do the visible dance...
meRib("btSearch").visible = False
end if

And, in your on-load, you set the bolOnLoadDone = true AFTER every thing
else...

And, you might have to thus call the the visible code from the on-load also.

So, try the meRibA and simply supply the ribbon name. if that don't work,
then
you have to use the bol flag as per above.

The meRib code assumes the ACTIVE form and the form does NOT
become active until AFTER on-load is done and exit. My code
uses screen.ActiveForm, and that means meRib can't be used
in the on-load event.

However:
meRibA should work, but if not, then I think the above flag is the next road
+ suggestion...

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Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pleaseNOOSpamKallal(a)msn.com


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