Export contents of a form

mdusoe

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Is there a way to export a form object, out of the VBE, into a .bas file or something?

What I am trying to do is to store the various Forms and Reports in a Version Control Manager (VCM) (Source Safe, most probably). But if I try to put the whole .mdb file into the VCM, it doesn't do me much good.

Any thoughts?

Thanx,
Mike.
 

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Hmmmm, not sure if that is an option. It would require upgrading to the Developer Edition, and given our current situation at the office, I don't know if that is possible...

I will explore it, but are there any other suggestions?

Thanx,
Mike.
 
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I was poking around on my installation - for some quirky reason that I never bothered to figure out, I can't get Visual Sourcesafe installed on my work PC...but, looking at the docs, it's very clear it's designed to allow you to check in/out ALL objects in the database.

Your best and possibly only route to do this may be the Office Developer edition. There was also a Developers Tools (only) addition you might try. Office Developer is a Premium Office package + tools.

You might try something like this next code snippet. I was recently, on my own, playing around with itemizing all controls and objects on a form just in case I wanted to automate some sort of form rebuild process.

Code:
Sub ShowFormStuff()
Dim dbs As DAO.Database
Dim rs, rsR As DAO.Recordset
Dim strSQL As String
Dim x, y As Integer

Set dbs = CurrentDb

strSQL = "DELETE * FROM tblControls"
DoCmd.RunSQL strSQL
strSQL = "SELECT * from tblControls"
Set rs = dbs.OpenRecordset(strSQL, dbOpenDynaset)
strSQL = "SELECT * FROM tblProperty"
'Set rsR = dbs.OpenRecordset(strSQL, dbOpenDynaset)

Set rsR = dbs.OpenRecordset(strSQL, dbOpenDynaset)

With rs
  For x = 0 To Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Count - 1
  .AddNew
    'Debug.Print Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Name
    .Fields(0).Value = Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Name
    .Update
      For y = 0 To Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties.Count
       'Debug.Print Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties(y).Name & " " _
            ; Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties(y).Value & " End Entry"
       Set rsR = dbs.OpenRecordset(strSQL, dbOpenDynaset)
       rsR.AddNew
       rsR.Fields(0).Value = Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Name
       If Not IsNull(Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties(y).Name) Then
         rsR.Fields(2).Value = Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties(y).Name
       End If
       If Not IsNull(Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties(y).Value) And _
         Len(Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties(y).Value) > 0 Then
         rsR.Fields(3).Value = Forms!frmSelect.Controls.Item(x).Properties(y).Value
       End If
       rsR.Update
    Next y
  Next x
End With

End Sub

I should add the above populates two related tables. I was looking to build lists. I tossed my error handling but it's buggy and does hit some errors with null values in properties.

Mike
 
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