Access 2000 timer event

[Gareth]

I want to create a front screen where "box1" appears for 2 seconds, then
"box2" appears and "box1" dissapppears, then two seconds after that "box3"
appears and "box2" dissappears, so on... in total 5 boxes with different text
in them must appear and dissappear before the next follows suit and at the
end of this close down and open "formMain".
How can I do this, timer events have confused me immensely!
Any help would be REALLY grateful.

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[Douglas J. Steele]

Have your 5 boxes on the form.

In the form's Load event, set the Visible property for box 1 to True, and
the other 4 boxes False, and set the TimerInterval property to 2000:

Me.Box1.Visible = True
Me.Box2.Visible = False
Me.Box3.Visible = False
Me.Box4.Visible = False
Me.Box5.Visible = False
Me.TimerInterval = 2000

In the Timer event, try something along the lines of:

If Me.Box1.Visible = True Then
Me.Box1.Visible = False
Me.Box2.Visible = True
ElseIf Me.Box2.Visible = True Then
Me.Box2.Visible = False
Me.Box3.Visible = True
ElseIf Me.Box3.Visible = True Then
Me.Box3.Visible = False
Me.Box4.Visible = True
ElseIf Me.Box4.Visible = True Then
Me.Box4.Visible = False
Me.Box5.Visible = True
Else
Me.Box5.Visible = False
Me.TimerInterval = 0
End If

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