Make the splash page last longer

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Paul (ESI)

Suppose you create a groovy custom splash page for database. The problem is,
it only ever lasts a few seconds. On most computers, the user barely even
gets the chance to see it. You decide you want to make it last a little while
longer so everybody can see your wonderful art work. You put a piece of your
soul into this splash page. You ripped out you heart for it and you want
people to be able to enjoy it (LOL, okay, I'm getting a bit carried away).

Anybody know how to make it last longer? Is it easy to toy with it? You
know, change it, then change it again, and again, and so on to get a good
duration based on trial and error?

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Have a nice day!

~Paul
Express Scripts,
Charting the future of pharmacy

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Rick B

Do a search. I have seen this asked before. I think the response was that
there is a regsitry entry. But I could be wrong.

If you want to make sure the user sees a 'screen' for a particular amount of
time, make it a form in yyour database instead and set it as the form to
open with the file. You could add code to the form to close it after a set
amount of time, or provide a "close" button.
 
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Paul (ESI)

Hey, cool! You are right, that would work. Can't you also set the startup
settings for a specific database so that the Access splash screen doesn't
come up at all? I may be wrong, I forget, but I think you can. I'll try
searching too, to see if I can find previous answers on how to lengthen the
time the splash screen stays.

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Have a nice day!

~Paul
Express Scripts,
Charting the future of pharmacy

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Rick B

To do that, create your splash page as a one-pixel image. It will still
display, but no one will know it is there :)
 
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Jeff Conrad

Here is a past post of mine on this issue Paul.
See,

http://www.mvps.org/access/general/gen0029.htm

This bitmap will only display for a very brief time as you have noticed.
What you need to do is to create a "Splash Form" (not bitmap) that
has all the information you wish to display when the application first
starts. Using the Form's Timer event *you* control exactly how long
it will be displayed.

A picture is worth a thousand words so how about a nice visual walk-
through guide on how to set this up? See here:

http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/flashfiles/splashscreen.html

Now for the *best* looking application load, use *both* a bitmap
and the splash screen form. Change the bitmap to be like 1 pixel
by 1 pixel in dimensions with maybe just plain white. Save it with
the same name as the database (with .bmp extension) and place in
the same folder. The result of this will be that you will NOT see
the Access splash screen AND your custom splash screen form
will display for whatever time frame you specify.

Hope that helps,--
Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie - MVP
http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie.html
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/articles.html

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