i developed a simple app to manage my movies. 4 command buttons manage first rec, prev rec, next rec and last rec. i used the access built in command button macros for each. following the pressing of last, for example, i would like to disable next and last buttons. simple enuf, right? well, the macro fires after the code event, so the record in the form still has the current rec, as opposed to the last rec, which leaves the buttons in their current state, though they should be disabled.
how can i fix this without having to do all the work in code - bind the control in code.

You're not going to be able to easily do that with macros; the macro code is not trivial.

I suggest that you get a good Access hornbook and step into VBA. You'll find that it is drammatically easier and more powerful than macros.

You can search the various Access forums, for VBA code behind the buttons you have.

thanks for your response. through a bit of digging, i learned that access is capable of converting macros to code, and after seeing the simplicity of the code, felt rather stupid for asking the quetion. here is an example of the code equivalent of the Next Record macro:Private Sub cmdNext_Click()
On Error GoTo cmdNext_Click_Err
DoCmd.GoToRecord , "", acNext
'Manage form control states
ButtonState
cmdNext_Click_Exit:
Exit Sub
cmdNext_Click_Err:
MsgBox Error$, Err.Number, Err.Source
Resume cmdNext_Click_Exit
End Sub

unaware, i foolishly chose to trust the databinding and event sequence provided by access macros, instead or designing the simple code.
the issue has long since been fixed.
thanks.
greg

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