Flash intro to a form

[nicolascaprais]

Hello all!

I made an application based on an acces form for my final year of study.
Since I have to present to my teachers for a final examination, I want
to impress them!!!

That's why I want to give to my application a professional look, and
have, sort of like any regular program, a loading window appear before
using the program itself (just like in photoshop or any program where
there's a nice image and infos while you are waiting for it to load
fonts and stuffs...).

How could I do this??

Insert a flash loop or an image before running the application?

What do you all think of this?

Cheers
nico

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Nico

You didn't mention which version of Access you are using.

Have you looked into creating a form you could display during "startup" and
setting the startup (Tools|) to that form? You can add a Timer event on
that form if you want some simple, time-related actions to happen.

I'm not sure about embedding a flash component, but one possibility you
could look into would be using the above startup form/timer event to shell
out to another program.

(Hopefully your instructors will be more interested in the structure and
user-friendliness of your application than your startup screen...!)

Good luck

Jeff Boyce
<Access MVP>

 

[nicolascaprais]

Of course!!! My instructors are looking for areliable and user friendly
database application which is what I 'm getting down to!!!
But this intro will give a plus to the app!
I use MS Access 2000 to answer your question
I think I'm gonna create a start form which will disappear on a timer
event and have my application form appear behind that...
Anyways I'll post some more questions on the user friendliness of my app
in the week!

cheers nico