MS Access As A Dev Tool
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Using a Switchboard form is a great way to control your application. A Switchboard form is simply a form with command buttons that allow you to navigate to other Switchboard forms or to the forms and reports that make up your system.
Figure 10.11 shows a Switchboard form. It lets a user work with different components of the database. What differentiates a Switchboard form from other forms is that its purpose is limited to navigating through the application. It usually has a border style of Dialog, and it has no scrollbars, record selectors, or navigation buttons. Other than these characteristics, a Switchboard form is a normal form. There are many styles of Navigation forms; which one you use depends on your users' needs.
Splash screens add professional polish to your applications and give your users something to look at while your programming code is setting up the application. Just follow these steps to create a Splash Screen form:
1. Create a new form. 2. Set the Scrollbars property to Neither, the Record Selectors property to No, the Navigation Buttons property to No, the Auto Resize property to Yes, the Auto Center property to Yes, and the Border Style to None. 3. Make the form pop-up and modal by setting the Pop Up and Modal properties of the form to Yes. 4. Add a picture to the form and set the picture's properties. 5. Add any text you want on the form. 6. Set the form's timer interval property to the number of seconds you want the splash screen to be displayed. 7. Code the form's Timer event for DoCmd.Close. 8. Code the form's Unload event to open your main Switchboard form.Because the Timer event of the Splash Screen form closes the form after the amount of time specified in the timer interval, the Splash Screen form unloads itself. While it's unloading, it loads a Switchboard form. The Splash Screen form included in CHAP10EX.ACCDB is called frmSplash. When it unloads, it opens the frmSwitchboard form.
You can implement a Splash Screen form in many other ways. For example, you can call a Splash Screen form from a Startup form; its Open event simply needs to open the Splash Screen form. The problem with this method is that if your application loads and unloads the Switchboard while the application is running, the Splash Screen is displayed again.
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You can also display a splash screen by including a bitmap file with the same name as your database (ACCDB) in the same directory as the database file. When the application is loaded, the splash screen is displayed for a couple of seconds. The only disadvantage to this method is that you have less control over when, and how long, the splash screen is displayed.This material originally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development. Reprinted here by author's permission.
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