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Populating Controls From a Recordset

Populating Controls From a Recordset

On a form, basing populating controls on a supplied record may lead to error, because a perfect match is needed between the control tags and the field list. Any pre-specified error handler jumps loop, making it hard to resume. A simple way to get around this issue is to use in-line error handling, as illustrated in the following example:

 Public Sub DataPopulateCustomer(pRst As Recordset)    Dim ctl As WLText    'Assume that txt is a control array of type WLText    On Error Resume Next    For Each ctl In txt        ctl.Text = Trim(pRst.Fields(ctl.Tag).Value &
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