How to show field content in a Label?

[robertdbuckley]

Hi,

I am new to access programming although I have some experience with VBA.

I am wondering how to do the following: I want to display the ID of a dataset in a form but I don´t want the user to be able to edit it. Therefore I want to display the id in a label and not a textbox or combo etc.



I can´t see a way of how to do this though. Is this possible, or am I going about it the wrong way?

yours,

Rob

[R_Badger]

You could just use a text box and set the property 'locked' to yes

[robertdbuckley]

Thanks.

Is this the normal way of doing things then? Do you know if it is possible to do what I described or not?

[R_Badger]

That's the way I would do it, if it is 'data' and I don't want the user to edit it.

I don't know why you would want to do it another way as pretty much every other way is harder or at least requires some thought!

If you are desperate to assign the value to a label (I feel the need to say again I cannot see any possible gain from doing this over simply locking the control) then you can go through the vba route, of assigning the caption on the oncurrent event.