Access Express Australia 2025 02 21

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)