Yo! Jim:
Tuesday December 17 1996 11:44, Jim Chevraux wrote to Cindy Cheek:
 JC>         Not a macro, Access Basic code.
 JC>         Bring up the form in design view.  Then click on one of the text
 JC> boxes that you want to monitor for changes (say, a PaidOn text box for a
 JC> field of the same name).  Click with your right mouse button and open up
 JC> the properties box.
 JC> Scroll down through that box and you'll find an event called "On
 JC> Change" that you can define a set of instructions that'll occur when
 JC> that event happens in that text box.  Click to the right of the text
 JC> box for the On Change event and a box with a "..." in it will appear.
 JC> If a dialog box hasn't come up, click on that box and it will. Select
 JC> "Code Builder" out of the three options.  At that time, a box will
 JC> open up that contains the following:   Private Sub ???_Change() ??? =
 JC> the name of the text box PaidOn in my example End Sub        At this
 JC> time, there's no code in there.
Right.  That's where Cindy and I begin to lose contact with reality and the 
hard ground.  Code......  &*%%$#*
We're not programmers....and have one helluva time seeing the logic in the 
mnany and varied code examples that are available for view here and there.
 JC> Inbetween the two lines, type in Modified=Date.
Cindy is hung up on details while I am hung up on the broader view, but 
neither of us can get very far at times.  Me, I can see the clear logic in 
the expression, y = mx + b    The language is certain and absolute.  I don't 
see the logic or "how to find out" clues in code.
On that note, can you recommend a STARTING POINT from which to pick this 
stuff up and learn it?  Between the two of us, Cindy and I know databases and 
especially ACCESS.  It's the code, man, the code.  Doesn't make any sense to 
us and the basic starting point is even elusive.
We can emulate; simulate; replicate; theorize; hypothesize; and synthesize; 
but we can't get to first base on our own...not without a lot of handholding 
and nosewiping, if you catch my drift.
We need to change that, and recommendations for a starting point sure would 
be appreciated.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team | Microsoft MVP
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