Keeping a screen in focus

[Guest]

Hello All,

We have some program here at the company written in C. When the program is
open the user is unable to do anything, except interface with the program.
It keeps them out of windows, etc. It also fills the full screen covering
the taskbar and start button.

I would like to do this in access. Is there a way to have a screen keep
focus even outside of the access program? So basically once the screen is
open the user could not do anything else until the screen is closed.

 

[Guest]

Hi Mark,

Generally the way you force a user to have to deal with a specific screen
before moving on is to make the form PopUp and Modal. However, why do you
want to prevent users from moving elsewhere around Windows at the same time?
This defeats the purpose of using a multi-tasking environment.

Hope this helps.

Damian.

 

[missinglinq via AccessMonster.com]

Once you follow Damian's advice, you simply have to diddle with
increasing/decreasing the size of the form until you get it the size you want,
i.e. covering the entire screen. If this is going to be on multiple machines,
remember that all screen resolutions are not the same. If it'll be used on
machines with different resolutions, you'll need to use a form resizer
function (there's a couple out there) and if you're going to do this, you'll
need to develop it in the lowest resolution it'll be used in. All resizers
that I've seen work better upsizing the form.

And Damian, I realize multi-tasking is the current hot buzzword, but there
are programs out there important enough to require the user's undivided
attention!

--
There's ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat!

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[Guest]

This program will be run in a manufacturing process on a line. All I want is
for the user to enter in specs. Having another layer of security helps.

 

[Guest]

I didn't think about setting the screen size. I will have to give that a try
tomorrow at work. The only thing next would to be to disable the “Startâ€
button on the keyboard. Any information there would be appreciated as well.