Standalone Access app?

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Yair Sageev

I know this is kindof a silly question, but I would like to create an
application in Access that gets transformed into a standalone single purpose
application. The application could be distrubuted to people who do not have
access or an older version of access. For example, Macromedia Director
let's you burn "projectors", other authoring apps have similar
functionality.

At the very least, I'd like to create a database that prevents users from
even looking at tables, or the main DB window. It just pops up a startup
form and disallows any other UI functionality.

Thanks.
 
Sweet. Thanks.

Jim Jawn said:
Yair:

Check out "Access Runtime" and the Office Developer Packaging Wizard. There
are some pretty good applications that use MSDE combined with the Access
Runtime that are standalone if you plan on distributing to people without
access.

You can even use regular access and "hide" the database window. There are
lots of ways to accomplish this, from code and some other clever stuff you
can find around the net( http://www.tektips.com/ ), but the easiest way to
do it is to go to >> Tools >> Startup and uncheck display database window.
99 out of 100 access users don't know how to do this. Also, check out the
access MVPS site http://www.mvps.org/access and search in the forms section,
theres a couple of things on that site that could probably help you out a
little bit.

Jim Jawn
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