Access 2007 - tabbed forms manage own popups

[john john mackey]

I am thinking this tabbed form method in Access 2007 could be good... If I set my forms to come up as tabbed forms, can i design a pop-up form to be visible only in the current tabbed form/window? Aside from a complex set of checks on current view state, is there a property setting that locks a pop-up form to the current parent that launched this pop-up? Or, is there a way to check what tabbed form is currently active? I'm trying to avoid the user getting buried in a sea of pop-ups, but still allow him to switch between forms if he needs to. Thanks so much, JJ

[Lost User]

john john mackey wrote:

Aside from a complex set of checks on current view state, is there a property setting that locks a pop-up form to the current parent that launched this pop-up?

Not sure if VBA supports it, but you could try to set the new windows as a Child-control of the ParentForm.

john john mackey wrote:

Aside from a complex set of checks on current view state

Viewstate? Are you trying this from Access or from an ASP.NET application?

john john mackey wrote:

Or, is there a way to check what tabbed form is currently active?

That's usually possible, there's a property called "ActiveTab", "SelectedTab" or "SelectedIndex".

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[john john mackey]

I am doing this in MS Access 2007. I found something about a property (Screen.ActiveForm) - this probably means that I will have to do my own Form, Parent/Child management. Thanks for the advice on looking about a Child property. I will check into this.