Does this make sense?

I just finished a tutorial on making flash cards in Access. I'm hoping that it makes sense. I've aimed it to someone who might have some experience in access but not necessarily an expert. (If I started from scratch it would have filled a book I think...)

Just wondering if it is clear enough for someone to follow?

Thanks.

http://wizzley.com/how-to-create-flash-cards-with-microsoft-access/

Reads very well to me! The only thing that I could suggest would be cosmetic and it would be to perhaps help differentiate code from content in your article. It could be done like this:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void main()

{

cout << "Hello world!";

}

But again, it's purely cosmetic and I'm not sure how much horizontal rules like interacting with images, but it's your choice.

Great article! 

I'm not quite sure what you mean...sorry....

Haha, that's okay!

For example, you have this in your article:

Next Record Button

Now I need to have a way to turn the translation (meaining) box off again when I go to a new flash card. There are several ways to do this but the easiest was to put it under another button. I added a "next record" button using the button wizard again, but I added some code. The whole sub looks like this.

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Private Sub cmdnextrec_Click()
On Error GoTo Err_cmdnextrec_Click

    DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acNext            'built in code to go to the next record
    Me.meaining.Visible = False                 'This turns the translation box off again
    Me.Answer.Value = Null                          'This clears the answer box

    Me.Answer.SetFocus                             'this sets the cursor in the answer box

Exit_cmdnextrec_Click:
    Exit Sub

Err_cmdnextrec_Click:
    MsgBox Err.Description
    Resume Exit_cmdnextrec_Click

End Sub

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I added a couple of final touches and the first flash card program is done.

No really, I appreciate the feedback. You mean get rid of the lines? (and neaten it up) I was trying to make it clear where the code started and ended. Since I typed it in, it's all the same font n stuff.

Edit: in your version, there is a change of font and it's easy to see.

Yeah, the lines are still there but are replaced with horizontal rules but they're slightly hard to see and I believe having a font change for the code is a good idea. The "neatening up" was done because I accidentally messed it up in the text editor. 

I, too, agree that with code it's better to use a different font, and that one (Courier, isn't it?) is so much like code used to look like in the old days!

The font is indeed courier - it's widely used for code nowadays because it's a monospace typeface (meaning all the letters take up the same amount of space) and the font is installed on almost every system so users will be able to see it.

I'd love to change fonts, but I've never been able to figure out how to do that in wizzley. Even putting it in html doesn't work.

You have to add style="font-family:courier;" into each element you want to have that font. I'd imagine that it's in <p> elements so you'd have it as:

<p style="font-family:courier;">CODE</p>

EDIT ------ CODE

I'm not getting it. Nothing is happening on my page, but it looks like something happened here!

Well, in the HTML editor you'll have something like this:

<p>Article text here</p>

<p>Code here</p>

<p>More article text here</p>

And that would display like this:

Article text here

Code here

More article text here

However, if you change it to this:

<p>Article text here</p>

<p style="font-family:courier;">Code here</p>

<p>More article text here</p>

It will display like this:

Article text here

Code here

More article text here

Hmm, that means that we're not allowed to change CSS properties in an article. Not sure if there's a workaround for that available with what we use then, sorry! :(

Dang. Wish we could.

That's why I added the lines, esp since VB will have lines too.

Well, thanks for the suggestions. Maybe if I clean it up better...

Actually, there is an option to wrap your code in <pre> </pre> tags. This has a similar effect on the font. You'd have to do it in the HTML editor:

<pre>Nifty code goes here</pre>

It doesn't seem to work here on the forum editor, but give it a try on your article page.

I thought Content was King.

Sorry, my mistake.

It's Fontent!  

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks nightowl!!!!!!!!!   That did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chefkeem: 12/21/2012 - 05:54 PM

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I thought Content was King.

Sorry, my mistake.

It's Fontent!  

??????

Glad to hear it worked for you! :)

Ragtimelil: 12/21/2012 - 05:57 PM

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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks nightowl!!!!!!!!!   That did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks very good now, Ragtimelil! And using <pre> tags hadn't crossed my mind - there really is a way around everything :P

Thanks for your help, Paul. The <pre> tags were a new one for me.