Special Edition Using Access 97, Second Edition

Chapter 28. Responding to Events with VBA 5.0

All Windows applications are event-driven; event-driven means that an event, such as a mouse click on a command button or a change in the position of a record pointer, executes individual blocks of application programming code. Thus, most of the Access VBA code you write consists of event-handling subprocedures—also called event procedures—that are contained within [{ Public | Private }] Sub {Form|Report}_[ ObjectName _] EventName ... End Sub structures of class modules. Class module is the new VBA term that replaces Access 2.0's and Access 95's use of code-behind-forms (CBF) to describe Access Basic or Access VBA code within a Form or Report container. This chapter describes how to write ...