Comments on: MS Access: checking network paths without freezing your application

By: Renaud Bompuis

Renaud Bompuis — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:34:23 +0000

@Rati Murty: Thanks for reporting the issue, I'm not sure what could be wrong as I can see the images loading properly. Maybe it was just a temporary problem. Could you be so kind as to double-check and let me know if you still have this issue. Thanks.

By: Rati Murty

Rati Murty — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:15:50 +0000

Howdy just wanted to give you a quick heads up and let you know a few of the images aren't loading correctly. I'm not sure why but I think its a linking issue. I've tried it in two different web browsers and both show the same outcome.

By: Donnie

Donnie — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:57:30 +0000

thanks for your sample database module and class really works.

By: Renaud

Renaud — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:21:22 +0000

Thank you Karel :-)

By: karel van der kaaden

karel van der kaaden — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:45:20 +0000

really usefull !!!

I deal a long time with the problem of freezing the application when using Dir() or FileSystem object.

Thanks.

from the netherlands

By: Renaud

Renaud — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:11:03 +0000

Hi Edwin, Thanks for the comment. One way to make a non-freezing database check could be to create a small database from code and launch it. That small database would simply attempt to reach the the main server. Once successful, it would write a flag in its 'Result' table.

The main application could simply check regularly the external 'Result' table and display a permanent progress bar until a result is returned.

I'll think about this and try to implement it some time. Don't have the time just now though ;-(

Another, more simple solution would require a an external program or Access database already containing the necessary code and shipped with the application. Until now I've always tried to make my utilities from the principle that they should be created from within my main application, but it may be smarter to just create these ad-hoc tools separately and ship them with the app.

Using external programs is actually an easy way to deal with blocking code. For more general asynchronous coding it's actually more useful to use .Net or addins.

By: Edwin Blancovitch

Edwin Blancovitch — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:26:18 +0000

Great !!

I have been looking for answers like this and never found one really this good.

This forces me to ask another question. . .

Can you create code like this to see if a SQL server is found, and to see if the database is also found, or maybe retrieve a server list and database list from SQL.

That will be really great to have. . .

Imagine the code can say, looking, maybe even with a progress bar, and not hang the application.

The access somtimes says not responding, misleading users, this wasy it will be more proffesional. . .

Good Idea, inst it?