Way, as you don't waste tons of processing to figure out when to update I can see why my request makes little sense. Kallal' wrote in 'Randy Harris' wrote in om. Screen.you simply wait until the mouse appears, and then draw everything.ĭoEvents will flush all those pending draws, and update stuff out of theĮdmonton, Alberta D. Way, as you don't waste tons of processing to figure out when to update the The event driven nature of ms-access means that some screen updates andĭrawing does NOT occur during processing (99%of the time, this is the best If there is a few other places were you 'update' the screen in the code,Īgain just put DoEvents at that point in the code. Just place doevents command at the start of the your code. Immediately begin to run with no intervention from the user. > Anyone know if there is an Event that occurs when you open a formĪFTER it > is visible on the screen? I've tried Open, Activate, Load, Current, If the form is already open, whyĪre you issuing a DoCmd.OpenForm? Why not put code like this in the same place I'd like the StartupForm to appear, then code It never dawned on me that it could be done the other wayĪround, make the form visible before the code is run. I focused only on how to run the code after the formīecame visible. Some code?', not 'what events occur after a form has become visible' :-) Your question really was, 'how can I make a form visible before it runs 'TC' wrote in message Have the startup form say Me.Visible=True at the point where it is about Anyone know if there is an Event that occurs when you open a formĪFTER it is visible on the screen? I've tried Open, Activate, Load, Current, If the form is already open, why are you issuing a DoCmd.OpenForm? Why not put code like this in the same place : Gave up and put a Command button on it that the user must click to start the What I try, the code runs before the form appears on the screen. Your question really was, 'how can I make a form visible before it runs someĬode?', not 'what events occur after a form has become visible' :-) To run the code & you want it to become visible.

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