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Claudio Ferroni
It is possible to set up a form working in Full Screen Mode?
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Albert D. Kallal
You can have a form in full screen mode, but the application it self may
NOT.
ms-access follows what is called the MIDI interface. (Multiple document
interface).
All of Word, Excel, and most windows applications did follow this approach
for almost 10 years. Then, when office 2000 came along, this type of
interface was starting to be dropped (very sad in my opinion). However,
ms-access still does retain this interface, and thus means that all windows
are child windows of the main application (you do need to change this
setting in the options as to only see "one" entry in the windows task bar.
Anyway, to have a form be maximized when it opens, you can place the
following code in the on-load event of the form:
docmd.Maximize
However, I find forms maximized look VERY ugly. You most certainly might
want ms-access to be maximized, but maximized forms look quite horrible. You
can make forms model, and that way the user is "forced" to close the current
form and return to the previous form (thus, as long as the current form is
about as large as the previous from, then the user is not confused). Since I
like controlling the flow of the application, I would say that 95% of my
forms are model.
Also, you might want the application to be maximized when ms-access starts.
You likely have a nice start-up form now, and so you can place in you nice
"main" start-up form on-load event:
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdAppMaximize
So, just remember that maximizing a window (usually a form) in ms-access is
NOT the same as maxing the application.
Also, you can most certainly hide all of the ms-access interface by using
the options available in the tools->start-up.
If you want to try an example where all of the ms-access interface is
hidden, then try downloading and running the 3rd example at:
http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/msaccess/DownLoad.htm
NOT.
ms-access follows what is called the MIDI interface. (Multiple document
interface).
All of Word, Excel, and most windows applications did follow this approach
for almost 10 years. Then, when office 2000 came along, this type of
interface was starting to be dropped (very sad in my opinion). However,
ms-access still does retain this interface, and thus means that all windows
are child windows of the main application (you do need to change this
setting in the options as to only see "one" entry in the windows task bar.
Anyway, to have a form be maximized when it opens, you can place the
following code in the on-load event of the form:
docmd.Maximize
However, I find forms maximized look VERY ugly. You most certainly might
want ms-access to be maximized, but maximized forms look quite horrible. You
can make forms model, and that way the user is "forced" to close the current
form and return to the previous form (thus, as long as the current form is
about as large as the previous from, then the user is not confused). Since I
like controlling the flow of the application, I would say that 95% of my
forms are model.
Also, you might want the application to be maximized when ms-access starts.
You likely have a nice start-up form now, and so you can place in you nice
"main" start-up form on-load event:
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdAppMaximize
So, just remember that maximizing a window (usually a form) in ms-access is
NOT the same as maxing the application.
Also, you can most certainly hide all of the ms-access interface by using
the options available in the tools->start-up.
If you want to try an example where all of the ms-access interface is
hidden, then try downloading and running the 3rd example at:
http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/msaccess/DownLoad.htm
C
Cheryl Fischer
In the On Open event of your form, insert the following VBA code:
DoCmd.Maximize
DoCmd.Maximize