dop2000 thank you very much, this helped a great deal, i have a one currently in excel but its not meeting the needs i want and i have no experience in access, so this seemed the best option for me :P

im sure it will work out in the end :)

hi, so i am trying to create a holiday tracking application for work, now i have the calendar up and running and after a few random attempts of different methods -without much luck in creating users.

I settled on a sprite called user with variables for name, dob, payroll etc...

now it works each time i make an entry it creates a new user sprite with different variables, and i can check them in search boxes etc..

But what i have done is at the end of each creation i add them to a list, but as its text i can only add the variable for name or something similar not the whole user sprite.

it adds in the list the users surname and firstname, but i am unsure of how i can have the list item still access the variables from that one instance of user...

my idea is to click on the user, check on the approved or denied check boxes, then select the dates to and from to save the information on the calandar and deduct the remaining holiday or leave a note for denied holidays etc...

but for testing purposes i have a few test text objects that i try to display the variables of the selected list item, so lets say johnson, philip is in list item 1 i select this and hopefully select the user that this name is associated with, then change the text in the seperate tests to outpot user.payroll, user.firstname, user.DOB but the text fields only seen to output the 0's in the original user sprite's variables i made at the start,

is it possible to do what i am trying? using the same sprite with different instances of itself? or am i just simply overlooking something

or better yet is there a better way to handle this user information to access it all? i was thinking of a dictinary or an array but if im honast im currently at "IDIOT LEVEL" when it comes to understanding the mechanics of this objects

any help is extremely appreciated.

have you tried on ever tick make the player on top of layer?

you will need to add a little more inforamation as to your problem? what should it do or look like and what do you expect to have happen?

Hi i would like to create an application for holiday input and recording for work, i feel this should be possible but am not sure where to start i will need to create a calender for the years that can update the dates and days itself as it will run for hopefully many years,

I can manage data inputs and storage but if i wanted to have it store data remotely so it can be used from anywhere and be upto date at all times how would i go about this?

there will be alot of other things i may need to ask at a later date but does this seem like it could be possible with construct? or am i going to have to code it from scratch? my coding skill is weak right now lol