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Re: Terminating a program (newbie question)

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From: William Sayers
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:00
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Try This, Instead of using the Terminate function use the query_unload()
function and whenever anyone tries to terminate it should pop up, Then you
can treminate or not depending on the return value of the Message Box.
wsayers@softhome.net

David Elford wrote in message <6qir1v$uq$1@nswpull.telstra.net>...
>I just wanted to know about terminating a program properly. I'm aware that
>using the END statement will terminate a vb program, but what about when
you
>click the x button in the top right corner of a form? I'd like to be able
to
>prompt the user with an option to save their work before exiting. I can get
>a message box to appear by placing code in the form_terminate() function,
>but i can't stop it from terminating.
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
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From: "William Sayers" <wsayers@softhome.net>
Subject: Re: Terminating a program (newbie question)
Date: 1998/08/11
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