Microsoft® Access® 2010 Inside Out

Chapter 19. Understanding Event Processing

• Access as a Windows Event-Driven Application

• Summary of Form and Report Events

• Understanding Event Sequence and Form Editing

Although you can make Microsoft Access 2010 do a lot for you by setting properties when you design forms and reports, you really can’t make your application “come alive” until you build macros or Microsoft Visual Basic procedures that respond to events. An event can be as simple as the user clicking a button—and your code responds by opening a related form or report. An event can also trigger complex actions, such as creating a booking record when the user selects an available room.

In this chapter, you’ll first learn what event processing is all about—both in Windows and specifically ...