[AccessD] Ac2013 startup form

[Bill Benson]

OMG this is utterly unbelievable - making that change did NOT help. It
randomly goes back to a huge dialog.

Arggghhh

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently changing border style from sizeable to dialog solved the
> problem with size. Now if I could just get positioning to work without the
> intervention of VBA/macros?
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have created a popup form that I want to display as a splash screen.
>> Unfortunately on startup, before any macros are enabled and therefore
>> before my code can shape the form to the required size and put it in the
>> required position, it is opening super-huge.
>>
>> I could control this with an AutoExec that opens the form, but then the
>> user would be getting informaed that macros are present, and all have been
>> halted. That is an annoyance that has utterly put me off the AutoExec macro
>> - so if anyone knows how to make THAT stop I would be grateful as well.
>>
>> So here I am with a form I know how large it should be - and really want
>> it to be because the image I use as its background is getting centered and
>> looks ugly on a stretched out form. the kind of code I would be running to
>> control the size and position is shown below. I don't know why the darned
>> form won't just stay in that condition.
>>
>> Option Compare Database
>> Option Explicit
>> Private Sub cmdBatch_Click()
>> DoCmd.OpenForm "frmBatchReporting"
>> End Sub
>> Private Sub cmdSingle_Click()
>> DoCmd.OpenForm "frmreportingfilters"
>> End Sub
>> Private Sub Form_Load()
>> DoCmd.MoveSize 5000, 2000, 8000, 5000
>> lblEnableContent.Visible = False
>> cmdSingle.Visible = True
>> cmdBatch.Visible = True
>> End Sub
>>
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