Microsoft KB Archive/173684

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ACC: In a Report, Close Event Occurs Before Deactivate Event

Article ID: 173684

Article Last Modified on 1/20/2007

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q173684

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

SUMMARY

The sequence of the Deactivate and Close events for a Microsoft Access form are the reverse of the Close and Deactivate events in a Microsoft Access report.

MORE INFORMATION

When you close a form, the following sequence of events occurs for the form:

   Unload => Deactivate => Close
                

When you close a report from Print Preview view or when the report closes automatically after the Print event has occurred, the following sequence of events occurs for the report:

   Close => Deactivate
                

Note that a form's Close and Deactivate events are the reverse of the Deactivate and Close events of a report.

Steps to See this Behavior in a Form

1. Open the sample database Northwind.mdb (or NWIND.MDB in Microsoft Access 2.0).
2. Open the Employees form in Design view.

3. Set the form's OnDeactivate property to the following event procedure:
   

         Private Sub Form_Deactivate()
           MsgBox "Deactivate event"
         End Sub
                           

4. Set the form's OnClose property to the following event procedure:
   

         Private Sub Form_Close()
            MsgBox "Close event"
         End Sub
                           

5. Save and close the form.
6. Open the Employee form in Form view.
7. Close the form.
   
   Note that the Deactivate message appears before the Close message.

Steps to See this Behavior in a Report

1. Open the sample database Northwind.mdb (or NWIND.MDB in Microsoft Access 2.0).
2. Open the Customer Labels report in Design View.

3. Set the report's OnDeactivate property to the following event procedure:
   

         Private Sub Report_Deactivate()
           MsgBox "Deactivate event"
         End Sub
                           

4. Set the report's OnClose property to the following event procedure:
   

         Private Sub Report_Close()
            MsgBox "Close event"
         End Sub
                           

5. Save and close the report.
6. Open the Customer Labels report in Print Preview view.
7. Close the report.
   
   Note that the Close message appears before the Deactivate message.

REFERENCES

To find more information about events and their sequence, search the Help Index for "sequence of events", or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.

Additional query words: inf 95 8.00

Keywords: kbinfo KB173684

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