Welcome to the Access Express Australia User Group

Our virtual chapter meets every third Friday of the month at 11.30 am (that's Thursday 5.30pm US Pacific Summer Time)

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We'll be discussing all things Access and SQL Express

Access Express Australia meetings aim for a short presentation followed by discussion on aspects you may want to drill into.

Coming up – February 21 2025

This month Greg Regan will be continuing his series on modern Access user forms with this month’s focus on…

INTERFACE DESIGN: ICON CREATION

Text-based button vs Image (Icon) based controls

  • Image-based is faster once users are familiar with icons
  • How we can achieve the best of both worlds using Custom ToolTips

As developers, not graphic designers, how can we get world-class icons? Answer…

Metro Studio (it’s FREE!)

Overview of Metro Studio

  • Categories
  • Search
  • Creating your own Icons
  • Adding icons to your Project

Colors

  • Chosing your colour pallet
  • Background: transparent or solid
  • Padding: no padding in my world
  • Rotation
  • Go high-res
  • Copy colours from previous icons in a Project (if this is not your first icon)
  • Text Icons in Metro Studio

Add your icons to Access Forms as Images

(why I don’t use in Command Buttons)

  • Image Click event
  • Consider “Enabled / Disabled” image pair (but we won’t show code)

After his short presentation we’ll have plenty of time for discussion on this or any other burning issues
Issues like the New Outlook and how it is threatening to bring an end to the world as we know it

So please join us Febrary 21 2025 11.30 AM (Brisbane – GMT +10)

That’s Thursday evening in the USA. 5.30 pm Pacific, 7.30 pm Central and 8.30 pm Eastern

Middle of the night in Europe and UK (1.30 am Friday)

When it’s time to join one of our meetings you can use the Zoom link below.

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we kick off at 11.30 a.m. AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time GMT +10)

that’s Brisbane Queensland time where we don’t have daylight saving

For our friends across the pond in the USA – that’s 5.30 p.m (Pacific Daylight Saving Time) Thursday.

Or if you live across the ditch in New Zealand that’s 13:30 so take a late lunch. It would be great to see you.

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Next Meeting Febrary 21

Interface Design with Greg Regan

The recording of the presentation will be published on YouTube

You can find last months Video on Migration Planning below