Re: How to set level/depth/Z-value of non-modal popup forms?

hmm, okay. you might try adding code to the "background" form's Activate
event procedure, to select another open form, using DoCmd.SelectObject. if
there's one that's always open, just select that form. if not, you can loop
through the forms collection, checking for open forms, and select the first
form that *is* open (other than the background form, of course).

hth


<ksbjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Aug 5, 2:41 pm, "tina" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
if the only thing you're using that form for is to "hide" the Access
window
menu bar(s) and toolbar(s), it might be easier to just get rid of them
entirely.

Thanks for your response. I might need to state my situation more
clearly...

I usually build my Access apps so that a blank background covers the
screen, including the entire Access window and the Windows Task Bar.
For this I normally use a popup modal form, with no border or other
controls, that maximizes itself upon opening.

I then use other forms that are also set to popup and modal to
completely control the user's environment. In this particular case, I
need to have multiple forms on-screen that are popup but NOT modal, so
that the user can have access to all of them at once. (Modal forms,
by definition, can only be accessed one at a time, and must be closed
before other previously opened forms can even be clicked.) The
problem is that, in such an environment, the "background" form must
also be popup but not modal. A chance click on the background then
brings that form to the front, hiding all the other forms, and with no
way to bring all the other forms back into view. Hence my request for
suggestions on forcing the background form to the back-most position
if it happens to get clicked.



.

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