Re: A few more A97 vs A2000 questions

If you want to develop apps that will work in both Access 97 and later
versions, I would strongly advise developing in Access 97 and converting to
the later version before deployment, rather than developing in the later
version and converting to Access 97.

--
Brendan Reynolds
Access MVP

"Alp Bekisoglu" <alp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uLO64wNHGHA.3116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Douglas,
>
> Thanks for the info. Regarding the switchboard question, I was trying to
> find out "if" in A2K I could be able to create a form which would be
> compatible with A97, i.e.: one that I should not be forced to alter things
> related to CurrentDatabase -> CurrentDb, or the like. A2K also indicates
> ADODB within the code which I do not want. A SwB created in A97 has no
> problems compiling in A2K but changes to the code must be made in reverse.
>
> Alp
>
> "Douglas J. Steele" <NOSPAM_djsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:O8pML7HHGHA.2444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> The Switchboard Manager has moved from the Add-ins section to under Tools
>> | Database Utilities.
>>
>> Access 97 doesn't support Unicode, so I'm not sure that it's appropriate
>> for Turkish. Don't think you have much choice but to upgrade everyone to
>> at least Access 2000.
>>
>> --
>> Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
>> http://I.Am/DougSteele
>> (no private e-mails, please)
>>
>>
>> "Alp Bekisoglu" <alp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23nbM4XBHGHA.2696@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi Experts,
>>>
>>> The first question I have is: is there an add-on/utility or such for A2K
>>> to create the so named "switchboard" form's code in an A97 compatible
>>> way?
>>>
>>> Second is the fact that I am facing character display problems between
>>> machines and can't resolve the problem so far. One set of machines are
>>> W98 SE and use A97 the others include XP, W2K with a variety of Access
>>> versions except A97.
>>>
>>> The back-end is becoming problemmatic due to this character problem.
>>> Data entered is in Turkish on all machines but there is this
>>> incompatibility between the first set and the rest. Any help would be
>>> highly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Alp
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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