Form Startup Page

[imright]

I'm new to Access so I'll have some really "dumb" questions for most people but what better way to learn.
My first question is when I use a form as my startup page how do I make the startup form maximized when opening the database for the first time? I've tried many different things but can't get it to maximize on startup.

 

[boblarson]

In the form's On Open Event use

DoCmd.Maximize

 

[imright]

I did that and got the following error message: "The expression On Open you entered as the event property setting produced the following error: You don't have a license required to use this ActiveX control"
Then there was a whole list of possibilities of what could be wrong.
Is there something that I need to download to get this to work?

 

[missinglinq]

You'd better give us your code in your form's OnOpen and OnLoad events, as well as the Form_Current event, I guess, since it fires when a form first opens.

DoCmd.Maximize has nothing to do with an ActiveX control, so there's probably something else going on. Do you, in fact, have any ActiveX controls on your form?

 

[boblarson]

Did you put the code here:
http://www.btabdevelopment.com/main/QuickTutorials/Wheretoputcodeforevents/tabid/56/Default.aspx
or in the property?

 

[imright]

Bob
I didn't use the event builder, in fact that is the first I've seen that. I don't know any Visual Basic so I'm really at a disadvantage when I'm on this forum.
I did go to the event builder and it worked great.
Thanks for the help. I'll have many more questions in the future as my database progresses.