Determining a Forms location (when form is not current)

[SueBwork]

Greetings.

I am trying to position opened forms so that they are cascaded on the screen. I have discovered the movesize action (for the DoCmd) and Move property of a form (for Acc 2002/2003). However, if the application is opened up on different monitors (e.g.; 17" or 19"), the relative location of the opened form is not the same (i.e.; on the bigger monitor the opened form is too far over to the right and too high).

What I want to do is ...

When the subsequent (or second) form is opened up I would like to find the absolute location of the first form (always centered). This way I will be able to reposition the second and third forms relative to the first form.

Is this possible?

I'm having trouble referencing the first form from within the second form. The first form is still open, but they are not linked forms (not parent/child). I've tried:

forms("firstformname").left
forms("firstformname").top

but this does not work.

I've gone to online help and I've looked around in the newsgroups. But can't find any info. Anybody out there will suggestions?

Regards,
SueB

 

[boblarson]

Try:

Forms!firstformname.left
Forms!firstformname.top

And, if the form name contains spaces, you will need to use square brackets [] around the form name.