Change event with form load

I was wondering how I could get a form to load and populate the textboxes without triggering the "Change" event on the textbox.
Once the form is loaded, then I wanted to use the "Change" event.

if you cant hardcode the textbox value you could have a private boolean to say if the form is loaded or not.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
Private loaded As Boolean
 
'------------------------
Private Sub Form_Load()
 Text1.Text = "some text"
 loaded = True
End Sub
 
'------------------------
Private Sub Text1_Change()
 If loaded = True Then
  'your code
 End If
End Sub

casey.

You could create a boolean and turn the boolean to true once the textboxes are populated. Then on each textbox change event put everything inside: 'If boolean = True then', so that they are only triggered when the boolean is true, obviously. So is that what you are looking for?

Hi,

You can try this.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
Dim Loading As Boolean
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Loading = True
    Text1.Text = "loading"
    Loading = False
End Sub
 
Private Sub Text1_Change()
    If Loading Then Exit Sub Else MsgBox "Change event fired"
End Sub

Have a good one!
BK

I wonder who removed my last post...sorry if it offended anyone, was just joking =P.

It didn't work when I tried it vbasicgirl's way. I haven't tried the others yet.

VB Code:

' ****************
' This is in frmMaterials
' ****************
Private Sub flxgrdMaterials_DblClick()
frmMatDialog.PopMatEdit (flxgrdMaterials.TextMatrix(flxgrdMaterials.RowSel, 0))
frmMatDialog.Show vbModal
End Sub
 
' ****************
' this is in frmMatDialog
' ****************
Private Sub Form_Load()
    cmdSave.Enabled = False
    cmdSave.Visible = False
    cmdCancel.Caption = "Close"
    frmMain.Visible = False ' for some reason my other mdi form shows up  :ehh: 
End Sub
 
Public sub PopMatEdit (ByVal myMatToEdit As Integer) 
' I retireve data from a database and use "rs" as the recordset (not needed for this question)
If IsNull(rs.Fields("Date").Value) = True Then
    txtDate.Text = ""
Else
    txtDate.Text = rs.Fields("Date").Value
End If
End Sub
 
Private Sub txtDate_Change()
If lblDateChck.Caption <> txtDate.Text Then
    Call ButtonChange
    MsgBox "txtDate_Change"
End If
End Sub
 
Private Sub ButtonChange()
    cmdSave.Enabled = True
    cmdSave.Visible = True
    cmdCancel.Caption = "Cancel"
End Sub

every time the form loads, it triggers the msgbox and "ButtonChange" has obviously triggered.

I don't see where you are incorporating vbasicgirl's suggestion of using a Boolean, so how is her suggestion not working?

beengie, i dont see a boolean anywhere in your code. The reason you MDI form shows up is because frmMain is an mdi child.

I tried the code and then removed it. that is why I included the code.