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I can't even find the word splashscreen or spash screen in 07 help. I
inherited a database that uses switchboards and want a splashscreen so they can either go into it, or open a utilities form where I throw my own options and functionality. But I dont see anything on splashscreens, the startup manager to determine which form opens at startup. Only the switchboard manager. And switchboards are idiotic. That level of complexity and abstraction to simply open forms and reports is imbecillic. One form, one function, one button, one function. Its much easier to build, reverse engineer, document. These switchboards are nuclear powered pencil sharpeners. Moronic. Code should only be as complex as its functionality and features require. Looping through tables with ADO, to see how many buttons a form has, their captions and functionality is incredibly pointless. Who designed it, someone on a Tandy with 256K memory? Forms use virtually no file size. What are the advantages of eliminating a handful of dedicated forms with 500 lines of code, so womeone as MS or Wrox could impress people? Now this concoluted switchboard nonsense has to be revese engineered, altered, documented, maintained, passed on. Code bumming - Learn it, master it, or get out of the business. |
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To specify the form you want loaded at start up, go to:
Office Button | Access Options | Current Database | Display Form If you are trying to design a splash form that displays version info, this may help: http://allenbrowne.com/ser-53.html -- Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org. "JS5" wrote in message news ![]() I can't even find the word splashscreen or spash screen in 07 help. I inherited a database that uses switchboards and want a splashscreen so they can either go into it, or open a utilities form where I throw my own options and functionality. But I dont see anything on splashscreens, the startup manager to determine which form opens at startup. Only the switchboard manager. And switchboards are idiotic. That level of complexity and abstraction to simply open forms and reports is imbecillic. One form, one function, one button, one function. Its much easier to build, reverse engineer, document. These switchboards are nuclear powered pencil sharpeners. Moronic. Code should only be as complex as its functionality and features require. Looping through tables with ADO, to see how many buttons a form has, their captions and functionality is incredibly pointless. Who designed it, someone on a Tandy with 256K memory? Forms use virtually no file size. What are the advantages of eliminating a handful of dedicated forms with 500 lines of code, so womeone as MS or Wrox could impress people? Now this concoluted switchboard nonsense has to be revese engineered, altered, documented, maintained, passed on. Code bumming - Learn it, master it, or get out of the business. |
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Hi there,
why don´t you create a macro named Autoexec. It will do everything you want when you start your database. Regards Jörn Am 05.06.2010 17:11, schrieb JS5: I can't even find the word splashscreen or spash screen in 07 help. I inherited a database that uses switchboards and want a splashscreen so they can either go into it, or open a utilities form where I throw my own options and functionality. But I dont see anything on splashscreens, the startup manager to determine which form opens at startup. Only the switchboard manager. And switchboards are idiotic. That level of complexity and abstraction to simply open forms and reports is imbecillic. One form, one function, one button, one function. Its much easier to build, reverse engineer, document. These switchboards are nuclear powered pencil sharpeners. Moronic. Code should only be as complex as its functionality and features require. Looping through tables with ADO, to see how many buttons a form has, their captions and functionality is incredibly pointless. Who designed it, someone on a Tandy with 256K memory? Forms use virtually no file size. What are the advantages of eliminating a handful of dedicated forms with 500 lines of code, so womeone as MS or Wrox could impress people? Now this concoluted switchboard nonsense has to be revese engineered, altered, documented, maintained, passed on. Code bumming - Learn it, master it, or get out of the business. |
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