I have created my MS Access Program but I have multiple monitors and so do the other people who will be using the program.
Just so you know my forms are popup style, have no borders or record selectors and I am guessing this is where my issue comes in.
I would like to know if there is a way to ensure that when a user opens a form, the form will only open within the MS Access Window/Canvas on the active monitor?
I would also like to know if there is a way for my application to automatically adjust according to the users screen resolution?
As an example my Forms open perfectly when I am using the application on my main screen which has a resolution of 3840 x 2160 but if I open the application on my second screen which has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 the forms that open subsequently, such as the user form, then opens on the main screen so small that no one can read or see it.
Application is on Right monitor and User Form is Open on Left (Main) Monitor
The code I have used for the OnOpen Event is below:
Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Dim Right As Integer, Down As Integer
Right = Screen.ActiveForm.WindowLeft
Down = Screen.ActiveForm.WindowTop
DoCmd.MoveSize Right, Down
End Sub
This was obtained from some research but I cant seem to bind everything to the Application Window/Canvas.
Thank you.
Well, if you only ever have one window open at one time, then you can do this with ease.
Remember, today most applications are SPA (what we call single page applications). We don't use (nor have) very often a main applcation window, and THEN a child window. For one, they tend to not be touch friendly, and it is VERY hard to move a window around with touch.
but, even desktop browsers even use some "kind" of tabbed interface. And so do most desktop applications. And by tabbed - I don't necessary mean across the top. This access screen shows a tab system from the left side:
So, Access now has a option to use tabbed interface.
And if you :
do NOT use pop windows.
Set access to use tabbed interface, eg this:
Then un-check the display tabs.
If you do above, then you WILL NEVER EVER see the access background window.
You see this:
However, keep this in mind:
The form you launch will re-size to the main size of the Access window - not the other way around.
All forms can't be popup
You are "SPA" like applcation.
So, most accounting and most desktop applications now work this way. And WHEN you launch a form, the window does not re-size tot he form, but remains the current applcation window size.
So, without ANY specials code, you can 100% hide the access background window.
And if you re-size the access application window, then the form will re-size to fill out the current form.
This might look quite bad in some cases - such as this:
Now for above, I on purpose made the form background green - just to PROVE and show that that Access background window NEVER will display with above options.
So, the main issue here?
You can 100% hide the access background window. And you can now do this WITHOUT specials code. Just a few settings.
On startup, you can hide the ribbon - or build a custom one - again your choice.
But, your forms MUST NOT be popup forms anymore.
So, hiding the access background window is very easy - it then becomes a question of form size - size forms re-size to application window size - not the other way around.
On the other hand, if you adopt a tabbed interface (accross the top or left side), then your main window is always in display, and you are in effect swapping out the form (a sub form) for display of that given form. You can write your own code, or use a new navigation form - which does this for you).
If you need to launch separate windows, then you could launch them as popup from this main form - but that main form will of course always hide the access background if you follow above.
If you wish to hide the ribbon, then on your main form - load event, you can add this code:
DoCmd.ShowToolbar "Ribbon", acToolbarNo
So, your main form (which hides access background) could be tabbed inteface (SPA) or it could be a launcher form, and each option clicked on could launch a form as popup - which can be dragged anywhere on your computer - including to the 2nd monitor if you wish.
So, either forms stay always in the main applcation window - but never see the background. Or you use above, and launch forms as popup.
I've been spending a while learning access and I have a question that may or maynot be possible. Ive written code that moves between access forms by running queries, opening a new form and then closing the old one (with a back button on the new page to close down the form and re-open the old one) so that people can navigate between different pages.
However, I am now trying out a navigation pane and wonder if there is a way to switch the form shown within the navigation pane tab so that different panes have different forms that can be switched between quickly?
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The error is because there is postback. How can I fix this?
You're not going to be able to use the built in toolbar to navigate. (At least not without finding your own work around).
What I did was created my own bar right above my control and it simply sends an action ("First", "Last", "Next", "Previous") to an action on the controller to adjust the ReportViewer's CurrentPage Variable. (I keep tract of the current page through the session and set it in the user control ascx).
I'm running ASP.NET/C# 3.5 with ReportViewer 2005. I'm having an issue where part of the data that gets spit out by the report gets split into pages one and two. The trouble is that most people don't notice pagination in the ReportViewer (I didn't even notice it myself for a while).
Is there a way to restrict ReportViewer so that the report gets displayed on one page only?
A workaround I've found was selecting the "Report" in design view and setting the Interactive Height/Width properties. I adjusted the height to 20 inches instead of the default 11 inches.
Just finishing off an update to an application written in VB.NET that used to run fine under CE.NET 4.2. Deployment platform is now Windows Mobile 6.1.
The application runs in full screen, however whenever a new form is opened, the task bar, i.e. the bar with the start button comes to the fore and then the new form takes over. This is particularly annoying as I have a form that has many sub forms which are 128,128 and still the task bar flashes and obscures part of the user input screen.
Has anyone comes across this? Any known workarounds?
You can use the technique I posted here to disable the task bar.
I assume your application flow is something like:
Form 1 open.
Form 1 close.
Form 2 open.
The problem is that between the Form 1 closing and the Form 2 opening the background window may be partially drawn (e.g. the task bar will draw).
To work around this we normally create a parent window (which is your case is full-screen window) which sits behind the form windows. That way when one is closing and the next is opening it falls back to displaying the parent window which can display anything you like (blank?).