How does Access create a continuous form?

That is the original question. I don't believe it is asking how to create a continuous form with Access. It is asking how does ACCESS take the one row definition of a continuous form and make it function as a continuous form which is a different question.

The AI code, as I already mentioned, essentially replicates what the wizard does which uses the Class module written by the original MS Access team. The wizard builds the "single" record form and the form's class module enstanciates it as a continuous form. I believe the question is how does THAT work?

Clearly, I am on one page with this question and all the rest of you (except maybe George) are on a different page. Maybe it's because you've never worked with a language that could actually build a continuous form out of whole cloth rather than by using a template which is how the Access form class module works. Only the OP knows what his actual question was and he's not talking:(
I wanted to know how Access creates a continuous form. I understand the confusion with the answer from chatgpt, how to make a continuous form with vba, but that’s not the answer i was looking for…
 
In that case, my answer of comparing it to the detail section of a report is relevant. I think the answer is simply that it is done the same way that Access creates a non-continuous form or report. It takes the template and applies the old "lather, rinse, repeat" algorithm. The only difference is how often it repeats before it stops filling in the available display-frame space. The issue about how changing something about the template changes every issue of using that template? No matter how you slice it, there is only one formatting/display template and the issues are of degree, not kind.
 

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