I have a tab control on a form, and a couple different tabs have save buttons on them. Once the user saves data (via SQL statements in VBA), I set the .enabled = false so that they cannot use this button again until moving to a brand new record (which is a button click on the overall form).
so when my form open i was going to reference a sub that enabled all these save buttons because the open event would mean new record. though i get an error that says it either does not exist, or is closed.
any ideas?
thanks
EDIT:
Sub Example()
error handling
Dim db as dao.database
dim rs as dao.recordset
dim sql as string
SQL = "INSERT INTO tblMain (Name, Address, CITY) VALUES ("
if not isnull (me.name) then
sql = sql & """" & me.name & ""","
else
sql = sql & " NULL,"
end if
if not insull(me.adress) then
sql = sql & " """ & me.address & ""","
else
sql = sql & " NULL,"
end if
if not isnull(me.city) then
sql = sql & " """ & me.city & ""","
else
sql = sql & " NULL,"
end if
'debug.print(sql)
set db = currentdb
db.execute (sql)
MsgBox "Changes were successfully saved"
me.MyTabCtl.Pages.Item("SecondPage").setfocus
me.cmdSaveInfo.enabled = false
and then on then the cmdSave needs to get re enabled on a new record (which by the way, this form is unbound), so it all happens when the form is re-opened. I tried this:
Sub Form_Open()
me.cmdSaveInfo.enabled = true
End Sub
and this is where I get the error stated above. So this is also not the tab that has focus when the form opens. Is that why I get this error? I cannot enable or disable a control when the tab is not showing?
