[AccessD] List Boxes

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Dec 15 12:54:27 CST 2010


If I had to guess, I would say that the time difference between the open of the query by itself and 
the requery of the list box is the time it takes to insert each element from the query into the 
listbox items.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 12/15/2010 11:40 AM, Tony Septav wrote:
> Hey All
> I have a series of 9 list boxes on a form. Sort of a drill down, the
> user selects an item in a list box and it then displays (waterfalls) the
> results in the following list boxes. For 60,000 records it takes about
> 2  to 3 seconds to refresh/requery all the list boxes.  One thing I
> don't quite understand is why when I manually open a query used for a
> list box it is quite fast, but when the list box gets requeried on the
> form there is noticable time lag. I can live with the 2 to 3 second
> delay time but what I am finding is as the program  requeries the other
> list boxes I can click on the originating list box  and I get the error
> message "The macro or function set to the BeforeUpate or
> ValidationRule......" .  The only event on the list box is an On Click.
> I have tried several approaches to try and prevent the user clicking
> before all requeries are completed. Is there a way to disable the cursor
> while  the code is running??



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