[AccessD] Disabling the user

...off the top of my head, one way would be to open a user-control-free
modal pop-up form over the main form from the cmdbutton and close it when
your routine is finished? ...put a warning label or a progress bar on the
pop-up ...HTH :)

William Hindman
<http://www.freestateproject.org> - Do you want liberty in your lifetime?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 5:24 AM
Subject: [AccessD] Disabling the user


> 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?
> --
> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
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