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[Guest]

I am using Access 2000
I have developed a number of reports that are opened with macros using
buttons on a main directory page.

The reports take a bit of time to open so I want to show message on the
screen while a report is loading.

I developed a pop-up form with the message in a label box complete with a
timer function that uses a close macro to close the form after 4 seconds. It
works well when I open it from the form title. (DoubleClick on the form title)

I inserted a line in the macro that opens a report before the open report
line to open the form. The form does open but all that is on the screen is
the outline until the report opens, then the form populates as well but of
course by then the report is open and there is no need of the message (Not
really what I had in mind) The form does close after five seconds so that
part works.

Can anyone tell me how to get the results that I want?

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

On each iteration of your timer event, try playing a doevents in the
code....

It quite hard to make this work, since your using up processing to open the
report, and there really not anything left over for processing to update
your progress screen...

Try the doevents as above.....

 

[Guest]

Thank you Albert. I was afraid that I would have to get into code to solve
this. Oh well another learning curve to climb.