Letters with Diacritics

Under X-Windows, I use the QWERTY keyboard because I'm so used to it. But once in a while I want to write something with an accent (à) or a special character (÷). To do that I use the Compose Key. In my case the Compose Key was the Caps Lock key, but now I changed that to the Menu Key. So I push the Menu Key once, and then two or three other keys to get the character I want. For example, the c with the cedilla diacritic is c and comma and it gives me: ç.

Setting Up the Compose Key

By default, the Compose key is probably not what you ...

Looked around on how to sort out a report properly as it was sorting on the wrong field (actually at first it did not even look like it was sorted at all, but I did not notice that other field was indeed sorted!)

The sort in a Query Report form (opposed to just an SQL query) is defined by the Group & Sort feature and not the SQL results. Actually, you most certainly don't need it in the SQL because otherwise you'll be sorting twice.

It took me a while, but I'm glad I found the solution. All the documentation I searched only talked about the wrong methods: use the Query sort ...

As I write programs, mainly in C++, I document them using the Doxygen tool. This is a very powerful parser that is capable of finding functions, variables, macros, and many other things in the source code and attach the corresponding documentation to those functions, variables, macros, etc.

This is extremly practical when creating large projects or libraries that you want to share with others.

One problem though, by default it seems like global functions (and thus C functions) and variables do not make it to the documentation, when C++ classes work fine.

Here are two potential issues in ...

MS-Access can be programmed with VBA which is neat. I do that a lot because the default forms do not allow you to strongly verify the data validity or even better: prevent you from editing certain record because they are too old, you don't have permissions, it was already archived in some way (i.e. invoice paid), etc.

However, I often encounter problems with the focus. The main thing I do to make it as safe as possible is show or hide buttons. If you cannot activate function A, then there is no point in having a button for function A. Instead, we should hide the function A button when we ...