Echo off and on

[Bob Howard]

Well, Access seems to be working! Unfortunately, I want to work around
that!

My form is a popup (in fact, every form in my application is a popup). On
one particular form I have lots of stuff going on behind the scenes when
certain buttons are pressed. Very distracting to the user.

The specs for docmd.echo and application.echo are both pretty clear --- they
don't work for popups. I've tested it --- and that's correct.

I've also tried setting the "painting" property of the form off but that
doesn't work because it automatically turns on when the form gains focus ---
no good here either because the form regains focus several times during the
dance!

Unfortunately, the fluttering and dancing around is very distracting to the
user.

I'm outa ideas!

Any info would be helpful....

Bob (@Marturerg)

 

[Bob Howard]

BTW, I've also tried turning off the popup property just before setting echo
false and then back on again after setting echo true. It makes it a tiny
bit better --- but there's still quite a flutter in one of the listboxes
that's being worked on behind the scenes (its sequence, default value and
focus row are all possibly changing).

 

[Bob Howard]

Never mind that last comment ... I had "on error resume next" and wasn't
aware that the popup wasn't being set off and back on again (apparantly
cannot be changed while form is open).