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How to: Open the designer of a control

Open the designer window of a WKL control, or of a WKL object that belongs to the database, to set its properties without code.

Requires WKL Forms Object Library 1.51 or later (the designer of WklApplication); the designer of a control is there from the release that brought the control.

Solution overview

Every WKL control has a designer window, and it opens the same way for all of them: from the row Custom of the property sheet in design view. The designer edits the control's own settings; its pages differ per control (for WklTreeView, for example, data source, appearance, symbols, behavior, events and all properties, with a live preview). OK writes the settings into the control, and Access stores them when the form is saved.

Four objects belong to the database rather than to a form, so they have no control. Their designer opens from the menu Database Tools › Add-Ins (add-in WklExtensions.accda) or from VBA.

Implementation

For a control:

  1. Open the form in design view and select the control.
  2. Open the property sheet (F4), tab Other (Andere).
  3. Click the row Custom (Benutzerdefiniert), then its [...] button.

For an object of the database, choose its entry under Database Tools › Add-Ins, or call it from the Immediate window:

ObjectAdd-in entryVBA
WklLinkManagerWKL Linked Tables ManagerCreateObject("WklForms.LinkManager").ShowDesigner
WklRibbonWKL Ribbon DesignerCreateObject("WklForms.Ribbon").ShowDesigner
WklRibbon, page ZuordnungWKL Shortcut Menu DesignerCreateObject("WklForms.Ribbon").ShowAssignments
WklNavPaneWKL Navigation Pane DesignerCreateObject("WklForms.NavPane").ShowDesigner
WklApplicationWKL Application DesignerCreateObject("WklForms.Application").ShowDesigner

Remarks

  • The designer of a control opens only in design view.
  • The right-click menu of a control offers no entry for the designer; use the row Custom.
  • Settings that belong to Access - Control Source, Enabled, Locked, Tab Stop - stay on the property sheet; the designer does not show them.
  • Access does not list the events of ActiveX controls on the property sheet's Event tab. The designer page Events (property sheet: row EventProcedures, [...]) creates the event procedures in the form module; see How to: Create event procedures for a control.
  • The add-in entries need the add-in WKL Extensions installed for the current Windows user (tools\install-addin.ps1 of the release package, see How to: Install the released package).
  • The designer windows follow the light or dark app mode of Windows. Size, position and last page of each designer window are kept per Windows user.
en/wiki/msaccess/comctl/how-to/open-the-designer-of-a-control.txt · Last modified: by Wolfgang van der Stille