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Friday, February 01, 2008

Access splash screen

How to add a splash screen that closes after 10 seconds before my main form starts?

Here is one way:
1. Place the form that has the splash screen in design view and set the following properties:
Timer Interval 6000
On Timer>>>>>>Click the build button to create an event procedure. Place the following code in that procedure:
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Private Sub Form_Timer()
On Error GoTo Error_Routine
' Form stays open for 10 seconds, then closes.
DoCmd.Close acForm, Me.Name
DoCmd.OpenForm "frmMainSwitchboard"
Exit_Continue:
Exit Sub
Error_Routine:
MsgBox "Error# " & Err.Number & " " & Err.Description
Resume Exit_Continue
End Sub
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2. Go to Startup properties on the Access Command menu tools>Startup and select the splash screen as the form hat opens at startup. Then test by restarting your application access file.



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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent worked first time with Access 2000 !
I tried another method before and it stopped working after a while.