Название: Advanced interactive interfaces with Access: Building Interactive Interfaces with VBAАвтор: Alessandro Grimaldi
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2024
Страниц: 287
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
Explore and learn advanced techniques for working with graphical, interactive interfaces that can be built in Access. This book starts with best practices and tips to write code using VBA, and covers how to implement them in a real-world scenario. You will learn how to create and use VBA classes. An introduction to the binary code and the "bit vector" technique is discussed, followed by the implementation of a drag-and-drop engine. You also will learn how to design a timeline, and make it scrollable. The importance of mastering classes should be obvious in any OOP programming language. Languages like Java, C++, Python, and C# are examples of popular OOP languages, as they fully embrace the principles and concepts of object-oriented programming. What’s wrong with VBA, then? Well, VBA is often considered a “light” or “limited” OOP language, for it does support some OOP features, but it lacks some advanced capabilities found in more modern and fully-fledged OOP languages. Due to these limitations (and to a diffused, generalized, absolutely unjustified aversion to this language), VBA is often seen as a procedural language with some OOP features rather than a fully-fledged OOP language. The good news is that we can happily live with these limitations (and sometimes exploit them, as we’ll see later), and classes remain a powerful tool to create our complex applications. Any source code or other supplementary material referenced by the author in this book is available to readers on GitHub. For VBA developers.
