Naming convention question? btn or cmd?

[RLehrbass]

Considering that I am fairly new to Access development, I come with few bad habits. So I want to keep it that way.
What is the most common naming of a command button? btnXXXX or cmdXXXX?
I understand it is a taste thing but what is the better choice?

[LaughingBull]

butopenform

[pbaldy]

I use cmd, but I wouldn't call it better. I think it's personal preference, and probably most important is consistently applying whatever naming convention you choose.

[June7]

What is best? - neither and both. There are different 'flavors' of buttons - command, toggle, radio. So if you want 'btn' to mean only the command button in your db, then fine that works as well as cmd. Then can use rdo, tgl for the others. Just be consistent.

I use btn but then I've never used toggle buttons and seldom use radio buttons.

[RLehrbass]

So, if i choose btn, rdo, tgl etc... most developers will understand and accept my convention and I will have more descriptive code then if I use cmd for all of these?

[June7]

That seems a little backwards. In my mind, cmd would be more specific (command button) than btn - probably why cmd is Paul's preference.

I got in the habit of using btn before I really learned about toggles and radios.

Regardless, experienced developers will figure it out.

Then there are other controls. I use tbx, cbx, lbx, lbl, lin, box, ctr.

Some even like to use prefixes for field names - a text field might be txt, other fields like: num, mem, hyp, att.

And prefixes for objects: tbl, qry, frm, rpt.

How far you want to take this is up to you.

[RLehrbass]

thanks for your thoughts on this issue.

[JeroenMioch]

Same here, btn, fld, ctrl, lbl, frm, qry, rpt etc..
I used to use Dutch abbreviations, but more often im using English ones. Easier to understand for English speaking people when i post problems here ^^

Also be consistent with naming of controls and such, like no spaces !! no underscores and such.

ctrlLicencePlateNumber
btnOpenFormVehicles
rptTotalCostRepairs

Gives you an immediate idea what the function is.