Application.Echo
Concur with Steve's advice about setting everything back to normal.
It's a pain trying to get everything running again while operating
"blind" with Echo set to False
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:08:01 GMT, John Baker <Baker.JH@Verizon.net>
wrote:
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>Steve:
>
>Thanks.
>
>Could you let me know HOW (that is, the code and commands etc) I would do either of these.
>I was thinking of the Screen Refresh since I go throgh a nbumnber oif streps which involve
>opening and closing various forms.
>
>Best
>
>John
>
>Steve Jorgensen <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
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>>Turning the Access screen refresh off entirely is a radical operation that I
>>prefer to avoid. A more precise operation is to set the the Painting property
>>of a form to False so that just that form will not update until its painting
>>is turned back on.
>>
>>In either case, be sure the code that hides activity on the display has an
>>error handler, and that error handler puts everything back to normal, so you
>>don't end up being unable to operate your interface after an error occurs.
>>
>>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:51:35 GMT, John Baker <Baker.JH@Verizon.net> wrote:
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>>>Hi:
>>>
>>>As in the "Wizard of Oz", I want people to "pay no attention to the man behind the
>>>curtain", by freezing the screen while a whole lot of things happen. I know about ECHO
>>>OFF, but this appears to reset when forms are opened and under other conditions. Are
>>>there any commands (Screen Refresh=False?) that will stop screen refreshing until another
>>>command is encountered that turns the screen refreshing on again?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>John Baker[/color][/color][/color]
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