Intellisense Window Closes too Quickly

[Mike Thomas]

For the past couple of days now, when typing code in the VB editor the
Intellisense window is shutting down almost as quickly as it is starting.

For example, in the Immediate window I type ? application. the window
opens as soon as I type the period, but before I can get a look at the list,
much less select something, the window disappears.

Is there a setting somewhere I need to change?

Many thanks
Mike Thomas

[Trevor Best]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:00:53 GMT in comp.databases.ms-access, "Mike
Thomas" <mi**@ease.com> wrote:

For the past couple of days now, when typing code in the VB editor the
Intellisense window is shutting down almost as quickly as it is starting.

For example, in the Immediate window I type ? application. the window
opens as soon as I type the period, but before I can get a look at the list,
much less select something, the window disappears.

Is there a setting somewhere I need to change?

You have a form timer event going off.
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[Mike Thomas]

You got that right. About a week ago I installed "Tony's" auto shutdown
which uses a form timer. I'll have to figure out a way to disable it when
in development mode.

Many thanks
MIke Thomas

"Trevor Best" <bouncer@localhost> wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:00:53 GMT in comp.databases.ms-access, "Mike
Thomas" <mi**@ease.com> wrote:

For the past couple of days now, when typing code in the VB editor the
Intellisense window is shutting down almost as quickly as it is starting.

For example, in the Immediate window I type ? application. the window
opens as soon as I type the period, but before I can get a look at the list,much less select something, the window disappears.

Is there a setting somewhere I need to change?

You have a form timer event going off.
--
A)bort, R)etry, I)nfluence with large hammer.

[Tony Toews]

"Mike Thomas" <mi**@ease.com> wrote:

You got that right. About a week ago I installed "Tony's" auto shutdown
which uses a form timer. I'll have to figure out a way to disable it when
in development mode.

If you are shipping MDE's then do a check in your code as per the following.

Function IsMDE() As Boolean
Dim strMDE As String
On Error Resume Next
strMDE = CurrentDb.Properties("MDE")
If Err = 0 And strMDE = "T" Then
' This is an MDE database.
IsMDE = True
Else
IsMDE = False
End If
End Function

If not then you'll have to figure something else out such as possible NT Account name
or workstation id.

Thanks for mentioning this. Those articles should be updated to warn people of this
problem.

Tony
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