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FreeAccess Newsletter No 5 - February 2002

  Free Access Tools and Databases AAD CONSULTING Sydney Australia_ | _Advanced Access Development
     
What's New at FreeAccess?

FreeAccess Access Add-Ins/Wizards

Ezy Filter 2.1
Easily filter any form or report on the fly. Version 2.1 fixes report sorting problems in the Access2000 version.

Access 2002/XP
XP versions of all FreeAccess addins and databases will be made available progressively from March 2002.

Our new sponsor is ecampus.com:
Access 2002 : The Complete Reference (w/CD) - Only US$31.19

 Phantom Microsoft Files - for subscribers only

Hard to find files that are no longer on the Microsoft web site - new files in each newsletter

Access97CommandBar Wizard
Easily build custom Menubar and Toolbars

The extraction password for the zip file was included in the subscriber mailing of 9 February 2002.

 Downloads

msaccess.with1click.com
FMS Access Free Utilities

 Code sample

Play a sound in Access

1. Place a .wav file in the same folder as your database, and name the file "test.wav". Create a blank Access form and add a command button.

Copy the following code into the the form's module:

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Private Const SND_ASYNC = 1
Private Declare Function sndPlaySound _
Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _
(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, _
ByVal UFlags As Long) As Long

Private Sub PlaySound(SoundFile As String)

sndPlaySound SoundFile, SND_ASYNC

End Sub

Private Function GetAppPath() As String

Dim strTemp As String
strTemp = CurrentDb.Name
GetAppPath = Left$(strTemp, Len(strTemp) - Len(Dir(strTemp)))

End Function

Private Sub Command0_Click()

PlaySound GetAppPath() & "test.wav"

End Sub

3. Open the form and click the command button.

 Useful links
Microsoft Office Tools on the Web
Microsoft Help and Support
 Coming soon...

XP Versions of all add-ins and databases

A new Access Meetings Tracker database application
Track meetings by date, project, and meetingid. Easy recording of attendees, minutes, outcomes, and delegations.

A new Access HRIS database application
A comprehensive leave and training tracker

A new version of the Project Management database
Incorporating daily time management

New versions of:
SmartForm Wizard
Vizual Einstein
Web Tarantula 

Also on the drawingboard:
Instant Invoicer Wizard
Consolidation Query Wizard
Call Logging Database
Curreny Exposure Manager Database

_Back Issues

 

No 1 September 2001
No 2
October 2001
No 3
November 2001
No 4
Dec/Jan2002

Extraction passwords for Phantom Microsoft Files for these issues were included in the subscriber mailing of 9 February 2002.

 

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What's New
Phantom Microsoft files
Downloads
Code sample
Useful links
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