[AccessD] MS Access popups that don't require clicking dialog buttons?

Bill Benson bensonforums at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 04:52:26 CDT 2021


I "sort of" like John's idea except if you are in tabbed mode for forms,
you might not see it.

You might consider using a timer on EVERY form, and having that label be
invisible in between timer toggles.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 9:46 AM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Aside from a balloon tip, does anyone have a method of popping up a message
> that would slide away/go away after N seconds without requiring a click of
> a button like MsgBox?
>
> Sometimes I want to gives a user a visual queue of an issue and use MsgBox
> to do it, but would like a method that doesn't require one to interact with
> the the message to continue working.
>
>
> I could employ a balloontip, but for some reason it doesn't fire in my
> Form_Open event where I might check for permissions to open a specific
> form.... the code runs but the balloon tip never shows.
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