ACC: CreateControl Creates Empty Container for OLE Controls

RESOLUTION

In order to create an OLE control at run time, you must first create a "template" form which contains all OLE controls that your procedure needs to create at run time. Then, the procedure must set the OLEData property of the new custom control to the OLEData property of the OLE control on the "template" form.

Create a form with all OLE controls that you plan for your procedure to create at run time. The procedure must set the OLEData property of the new OLE control to the OLEData property of the appropriate control on the template form. The following steps demonstrate how to do this with the Calendar control included with Microsoft Access.

This article assumes that you are familiar with Visual Basic for Applications and with creating Microsoft Access applications using the programming tools provided with Microsoft Access. For more information about Visual Basic for Applications, please refer to your version of the "Building Applications with Microsoft Access" manual.

1. Open the sample database Northwind.mdb.
2. Create a new blank form named Template.
3. Insert a Calendar control and name it Calendar.
4. Create a module and type the following line in the Declarations section if it is not already there:

   Option Explicit

5. Type the following procedure:

         Sub CreateCalendar()
            Dim frm As Form
            Dim ctl As Control
            DoCmd.OpenForm "Template", acDesign , , , , acHidden
            Set frm = CreateForm()
            Set ctl = CreateControl(frm.Name, acCustomControl, acDetail)
            ctl.OLEData = Forms!Template!Calendar.OLEData
            DoCmd.Restore
            DoCmd.Close acForm, "Template"
         End Sub
   						

6. To test this function, type the following line in the Debug window, and then press ENTER:

   CreateCalendar

   Note that a new form is created with a Calendar control.