Disappearing Modal PopUp Form

[Aoife]

Hi
I’ve got a background form with modal and popup properties both set to yes that opens when the application is opened – it serves to hide the MS Access application on startup.

I call further forms all with modal and popup properties both set to true, all works great until any of the forms have VBA that takes more than just a few seconds to process. If a user touches the form whilst such code is running and MS Access is “Not Responding”, the form disappears behind the initial background form.

There is no way for the user to know that the ‘Windows-Tab’ keyboard combination will return the form with the code to re-appear – this is further exacerbated by the fact that it’s a touch screen application with no access to a keyboard. The application locks itself out as there is no way of accessing the form that was processing the code.

Is there a way of ensuring that the most recent modal/popup form always stays on top?

 

[nhorton79]

I don’t know whether this will help as I haven’t personally tried it myself, my “splash” form normally gets hidden on startup and runs all my timer code I.e. timing out etc but...

See the below link about daisy/chaining forms:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/qu...ms-Disappearing-behind-other-Modal-Forms.html

It may help.


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[Aoife]

Thanks for the reply. I did see the potential Daisy Chain solution but my understanding is that this would serve to hide my background form (make it invisible) and therefore you would see more of the MS Access interface?

 

[theDBguy]

Hi,

Are all your forms maximized to fill the screen and the intent is to only allow the user to see the last one opened? If so, you might consider using Dialog forms instead.

 

[isladogs]

Hi
I think it will be difficult for anyone to offer a solution without looking at your app. Is it something you can upload?

Also as it's a kiosk style app, have you considered maximising each form to fill the screen completely? No app window, no title bar, no taskbar.
See my Patient Login kiosk app https://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=302159

 

[Aoife]

Thanks for all the feedback. Tried opening as a Dialog form and the VBA was unresponsive after the initial code was run. The form froze thereafter and I had to bomb it out.

I'll attempt to post a slimmed down version of the database later in the week.

BTW impressive database Colin.

 

[isladogs]

Thanks ... But more importantly could you use a similar approach to that example?

 

[Lightwave]

I tend to build systems where there my popups are set to modal yes and I only have one of these open at any one time. I just find it easier to manage.