How to Add tick character to a label

[Middlemarch]

Google tells me you can't resize the checkbox control, but you can use a label control and place a Wingdings character in it. 0xFE gives you the tick icon
How is 0xFE inputed to the label? I presume some keyboard combination?

[CJ_London]

You use a text box and the format property
https://www.access-programmers.co.uk...eckbox.305659/

[moke123]

You can also use a command button formatted anyway you want and set the caption property.
You can also use the tag property to assign a value.

If Me.Command1.Caption = "" Then
        Me.Command1.Caption = "P"   'Capital P is a checkmark in wingdings2
        Me.Command1.Tag = -1
    Else
        Me.Command1.Caption = ""
        Me.Command1.Tag = 0
    End If

[Middlemarch]

Thanks you, Interesting from CJ.

[CJ_London]

problem with a button or label is that will only work on a single form, not a datasheet or continuous form.

You can use an image control on a continuous form since that has a controlsource

Some further examples here
https://www.access-programmers.co.uk...s-form.324505/

[jojowhite]

as adviced, you can use a Label control (using Wingding font) as your checkbox.
see DemoForm form on the attached.
also see the code behind the labels.

[moke123]

You can use an image control on a continuous form since that has a controlsource

I came across this a while back and was surprised. Not sure what it really means.

[CJ_London]

Can you provide the link to that quote?

To clarify my understanding, image controls (like labels) cannot receive the focus so using an event (click/mouse events) on an image in a continuous form to reference that record to be able to change the image won't work without a lot of extra work - it will effectively be referencing the current record which may not be the record you think you are on.

However perfectly OK to use to display a value that is not to be changed in this form.

So using a button (which can receive the focus and therefore sets the current record) to display the image is the solution - per the second link I provided

OP has not made clear where the checkbox is to be used and whether or not it is 'updateable' by clicking on it. Merely to resize it.

[moke123]

Can you provide the link to that quote?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/of...i/access.image

[CJ_London]

in 365 they are still there and still work



Suspect the link is wrong - it is not mentioned for the mouse down/up events which can be used as a click event

[moke123]

in 365 they are still there and still work


Suspect the link is wrong - it is not mentioned for the mouse down/up events which can be used as a click event

I came across it a few months back. Didn't make much sense back then either.