Form doesn't stay maximized

[SAC]

I use a form as a menu with command buttons on it. These buttons open forms
and reports.

I have set some of the properties of the form as follows:

Views allowed: form
Scroll Bars: Neither
Record Selectors: No
Navigation Buttons: No
Dividing Lines: No

I use a command button to open a form and then when I close that form the
menu form is no longer maximized.

How can I stop this?

Thanks.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I use a form as a menu with command buttons on it. These buttons
open forms and reports.

I have set some of the properties of the form as follows:

Views allowed: form
Scroll Bars: Neither
Record Selectors: No
Navigation Buttons: No
Dividing Lines: No

I use a command button to open a form and then when I close that form
the menu form is no longer maximized.

How can I stop this?

Thanks.

Presumably the other form is being restored -- "un-maximized" --
somewhere along the way. In Access, the maximized state applies to all
the child windows -- forms and reports. What you can do is have your
menu form always maximize itself whenever it becomes the active form.
Use the form's Activate event to do this -- create an event procedure
for that event, and add one line to it, like this:

Private Sub Form_Activate()
DoCmd.Maximize
End Sub

 

[SAC]

When I enable a maximize button on the form then it works OK.

Can you please help me understand why?

I would rather not have a mximize button and have it remain maximized.

Thanks.

 

[Wayne Morgan]

Once Access maximizes a window it maximizes all of them. Also, once it
restores a window, it restores all of them. To maximize the menu you could
set it to maximize in its Activate event or you could tell the closing form
to maximize as it closes.

 

[SAC]

Thanks, Dick!

Presumably the other form is being restored -- "un-maximized" --
somewhere along the way. In Access, the maximized state applies to all
the child windows -- forms and reports. What you can do is have your
menu form always maximize itself whenever it becomes the active form.
Use the form's Activate event to do this -- create an event procedure
for that event, and add one line to it, like this:

Private Sub Form_Activate()
DoCmd.Maximize
End Sub

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

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[SAC]

Thanks, Wayne!

Once Access maximizes a window it maximizes all of them. Also, once it
restores a window, it restores all of them. To maximize the menu you could
set it to maximize in its Activate event or you could tell the closing form
to maximize as it closes.