In addition, some properties in the Microsoft Access property sheet for the ActiveX control, like the GridFontColor property of the Calendar control, have a Build button to the right of the property box. You can also view the custom properties dialog box by choosing the Properties subcommand of the ActiveX control Object command (for example, Calendar Control Object) on the Edit menu, or by choosing this same subcommand on the shortcut menu for the ActiveX control. To return to the Microsoft Access property sheet without changing any property settings, choose the Cancel button. To approve all changes made in the custom properties dialog box, choose the OK button.
You can choose other tabs to set other properties as needed.
Choose the tab that contains the interface for setting the properties that you want to set.Īfter you make changes on one tab, you can often apply those changes immediately by choosing the Apply button (if provided). Using the custom properties dialog boxĪfter you choose the Custom property box in the Microsoft Access property sheet, choose the Build button to the right of the property box to display the control's custom properties dialog box, often presented as a tabbed dialog box. If the list of properties contains the name Custom, the control provides the custom properties dialog box. To see whether a control provides this custom properties dialog box, look for the Custom property in the Microsoft Access property sheet for this control. Not all ActiveX controls provide a custom properties dialog box. For example, the GridFont property for the Calendar control has a number of arguments you can't set more than one argument per property in the Microsoft Access property sheet. This is usually the situation when the interface needed to set a property doesn't work inside the Microsoft Access property sheet. In some cases, the custom properties dialog box is the only way to set a property in Design view. The ActiveX control's custom properties dialog box.The custom properties dialog box provides an interface for setting key control properties regardless of the interface supplied by the hosting application.įor some ActiveX control properties, you can choose either of these two locations to set the property: The reason for the custom properties dialog box is that not all applications that use ActiveX controls provide a property sheet like the one in Microsoft Access. This information only applies to ActiveX controls in a Microsoft Access database environment.
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