Question Echo off and Status On

[Acme]

Hi All,

I have a procedure that reruns past data in a system and want to show the date on the status bar without the echo on. However, the only way to do it is to change the echo just before the syscmd to change the status bar text, and it looks jumpy. Anyway around this?

Thanks in advance,

 

[CJ_London]

why turn the echo off?

 

[Acme]

To keep the page from flashing everytime a form field updates. Specifically, the form has a date field, and some charts referencing the date field. The procedure runs through N dates which can be months. So there is a lot of echoing as the date changes. So would like echo off, but if echo off, status bar not updating.

 

[spikepl]

DoCmd.Echo False

after all calcs should be followed by

DoCmd.Echo True

Which should update entire screen, incl. the status thingy. Unfortunately, it is not always jump/flash-free, that depends among other things on what is on the form. I have a case where actually switching Echo off makes it much worse.