{UNSOLVED} Keep form maximised when lost focus - Open a form in full view

[tara99]

how can i open all the forms I have in full way and have it stay that way.

I should say that I have a user interface and user can nevigate from one form to another.
I have tried using the following code in my load event and it doen't do what I want

Private Sub Form_Load()
'DoCmd.Maximize

Me.InsideHeight = 10000
Me.InsideWidth = 15100

End Sub

I want the forms to be in full view, and when I caome back to it via aother form I still want it to be in full view.

Thanks

[MMcCarthy]

how can i open all the forms I have in full way and have it stay that way.

I should say that I have a user interface and user can nevigate from one form to another.
I have tried using the following code in my load event and it doen't do what I want

Private Sub Form_Load()
'DoCmd.Maximize

Me.InsideHeight = 10000
Me.InsideWidth = 15100

End Sub

I want the forms to be in full view, and when I caome back to it via aother form I still want it to be in full view.

Thanks

If you use

Private Sub Form_Load()
 
   DoCmd.Maximize
 
End Sub
 

Also in the form properties set:

Under format tab set min max buttons to 'None'
Under other tab set Modal to 'Yes'

[tara99]

If you use

Private Sub Form_Load()
 
   DoCmd.Maximize
 
End Sub
 

Also in the form properties set:

Under format tab set min max buttons to 'None'
Under other tab set Modal to 'Yes'

Hi

I have already done all that, the min, max, close button are set to none, and the Model is set to yes.
Also I have used the DoCmd.Maximize in my load form, it opens the form in full view but when I come back to same form via some other form the it doesn't open it in full view.
I don't know what else to do.
???????

[NeoPa]

That would have been interesting to know before.
What it means is that you are un-maximising elsewhere.
In Access, as in most Office applications, if you Max or unMax one window it affects them all.
If you want it to RE-MAXIMISE every time you select it then you will need to add

Call DoCmd.Maximize

to your form's OnActivate event.

[Killer42]

That would have been interesting to know before.
What it means is that you are un-maximising elsewhere.
In Access, as in most Office applications, if you Max or unMax one window it affects them all.
If you want it to RE-MAXIMISE every time you select it then you will need to add

Call DoCmd.Maximize

to your form's OnActivate event.

Could it be the way control is transferred to the form? I'm thinking of something equivalent to when you start another apoplication - you can specify to start it minimised, maximised or "normal". Presumably normal is the default, so perhaps the code which is activating the form is inadvertently doing this.

As you can tell, I'm a bit vague on this area - haven't done much form-to-form stuff in Access VBA.

[NeoPa]

No Killer - I don't think so.
It became clear only at the end that it wasn't actually how it's started that's the problem, but that it starts ok but COMES BACK as normal after switching to another window (within Access).
Clearly something (or the operator maybe) is normalising it elsewhere.
I'm expecting my previous post will produce a response to say it's all sorted now.

I've just reread the original post and noticed that there WAS mention of the requirement to re-maximise on return after all.
My apologies to Tara99.

[tara99]

That would have been interesting to know before.
What it means is that you are un-maximising elsewhere.
In Access, as in most Office applications, if you Max or unMax one window it affects them all.
If you want it to RE-MAXIMISE every time you select it then you will need to add

Call DoCmd.Maximize

to your form's OnActivate event.

Thanks so much NeoPa
It is working fine now

Cheers

[Killer42]

Thanks so much NeoPa
It is working fine now
Cheers

Drat! :)

NeoPa, I realise the problem was when coming back from another form, I just didn't know how that was being achieved. Anyway, all's well that ends well, huh?

[tara99]

No Killer - I don't think so.
It became clear only at the end that it wasn't actually how it's started that's the problem, but that it starts ok but COMES BACK as normal after switching to another window (within Access).
Clearly something (or the operator maybe) is normalising it elsewhere.
I'm expecting my previous post will produce a response to say it's all sorted now.

I've just reread the original post and noticed that there WAS mention of the requirement to re-maximise on return after all.
My apologies to Tara99.

Thanks NeoPa
Now I have another problem with my other form.
I have main window, I click a button and I go to another form, in this form I have a dropdown list and a button next to it, once the user selects an item from the list and hit the button it will open another form holding information for that item. now this form opens in full view althought I haven't set it to open in full view.
One more thing if I Click this form directly it opens fine.
If i go via other forms it opens in full view.
I am not sure what is wrong here?
????

[PEB]

Simply the form gets the maximized staus of the previous form.

If you want to escape this behavior
on activate event in the form properties write:

DoCmd.Restore