AEU Meeting Date 1 Oct 2025 starting at 18:00 UK Time (UTC+1)                     Last Updated 8 Oct 2025



Meeting Details:

This Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025 starting at 18:00 UK time (6PM UTC+1) and finishing at about 19:15 (7.15PM)

The start time is equivalent to 19:00 (7PM) in Central Europe and 10AM in Seattle / PST

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Topic outline:

No more boring standard dialogs - time for custom build dialogs!

Anyone who works with Access knows them all too well: MsgBox and InputBox. Functional? Yes. Modern, appealing or user-friendly? Unfortunately not.
These standard dialogs seem - let's say - a bit outdated. And if we're honest: Who actually reads these standard messages carefully anymore? Most people simply click on “OK” without even risking a glance.

Marcus will present his new dialogs. These are myMsgBox, myInputBox, myComboBox, and myNotification. These can be used to display not only formatted text, but also images and tables.
•   MyMsgBox and myInputbox are alternatives to the standard dialogs.
•   MyComboBox is similar to an InputBox, but allows you to select values from a combobox.
•   MyNotification is a sleek and fast notification using an icon on the screen.



Background:


Marcus is an Air-Application technician and works for the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA). His main task is the installation and maintenance of servers used for airspace surveillance (aircrafts and missiles).

He served as an NCO in the German Air Force for over 30 years and was involved in several missions. A typical task as a platoon leader was to maintain and evaluate all the sports results of all soldiers. Since manual evaluation was too time-consuming for him, he began developing an Excel file with automatic evaluation, which later ended up as an Excel database. So he started developing Access databases. He has now turned his hobby into a side job.

He tries to make the most of the outdated Access UI to give users a modern user experience. Therefore, he has a section (in English) on his website called Let's make Access sexy again! showing how to make Access look modern.

Website: DIETERLE programmierung     Mostly in German but with some articles in English.



Download:

The download file includes:
•   the presentation used in this session (PDF)
•   related article (PDF)
•   example database with all code (ACCDB)

Click to download:   Dialogs_Notifications_Version_3.3.04     Approx 20 MB (zipped)



Video:

The meeting was recorded and the video is now available on the Access Europe YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/4chSkALHw_8 or you can click below:

       



Colin Riddington           Mendip Data Systems                 Last Updated 8 Oct 2025

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