[AccessD] Disabling the user

On 28 Oct 2003 at 11:24, Andy Lacey wrote:

> Hi folks
> If you want a routine (called from a command button) to finish before the
> user can do anything else in the app how would you achieve that, short of
> putting up a message saying "Wait" and cutting their fingers off if they
> don't? The forms quite busy and there are a number of buttons they could
> press, or close the form etc, and I could write a function which just
> disabled all of those things then re-enabled them when the routine's
> finished, but it's a bit messy. Is there a cleaner way of just temporarily
> disabling the app?
> --

One way would be to open another form  modally ie. 
"WindowMode=acDialog" with no buttons or ControlBox and put the 
routine in that form's OnOpen. Then close the form when it has 
finished.





 
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