Close a msgbox

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Is there any way to close a msgbox programmatically? After an event occures,
I would like to show a message for 2 or 3 seconds and then continue with the
event procedure.
 
Frank C said:
Is there any way to close a msgbox programmatically? After an event occures,
I would like to show a message for 2 or 3 seconds and then continue with the
event procedure.
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Not with a MsgBox, no, but you can create a small form of your own to do it.
Use the new form's timer event to close it automatically.
 
Rick Brandt said:
Not with a MsgBox, no, but you can create a small form of your own to do
it. Use the new form's timer event to close it automatically.
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Actually, it can be done using the FindWindow and SendMessage APIs.

Karl E. Peterson has an example at
http://vb.mvps.org/samples/project.asp?id=TimedMsg that works fine in
Access.

One caveat, though: the message box MUST have a Cancel button on it for this
to work. If you've only got Yes and No buttons, for instance, it will not
work.
 
Douglas J. Steele said:
Actually, it can be done using the FindWindow and SendMessage APIs.

Karl E. Peterson has an example at
http://vb.mvps.org/samples/project.asp?id=TimedMsg that works fine in
Access.

One caveat, though: the message box MUST have a Cancel button on it
for this to work. If you've only got Yes and No buttons, for
instance, it will not work.
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Cool! Without testing it, I can see how that would work, because I see
that a form's Timer event still fires even when code in some other event
is waiting for a response to a MsgBox. Whaddayaknow!
 
I tried to post this the other day but must have messed up.

Thasnk you all for you input. I ran Karl's demo and it is what I am looking
for.
One more problem that maybe you can help me with. I'm not sure what I
should put out of the 2 code documents and insert into an event procedure.
Also where would it go in the procedure in relationship to the mesbox
statement?
 
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