[AccessD] Forms liberated

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 10:34:04 CDT 2013


I just tested in 2003 and sure enough, a popup is liberated there as well.  I guess I just never 
noticed before!

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 8/19/2013 9:06 PM, Dan Waters wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> You can set the Modal property = True and the Popup property to False.  This
> prevents clicking on any form other than the one just opened, without the
> form going off-screen.  However, it is then possible to open another form
> programmatically which would cover the modal form, thus completely locking
> up the application for anyone.  With that in mind ...
>
> HTH,
> Dan
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] Forms liberated
>
> Further to my previous post, it appears that setting the popup property true
> is what allows the form to move outside of the access container window.  Is
> this something new to Access 2007?  My client doesn't like it so I am
> looking for an alternative other than removing the popup property.
>
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