WklToast

WklToast shows short notes after an action at the bottom right of the Access window or of a form, as Outlook and Teams do: they never take the focus, close by themselves and can offer one action such as Undo. It is an object created with New, not a control.

• Show a note with Undo

• How to: Show a note after an action, with Undo

+- Access ----------------------------------------------------------------+
|  frmRules                                                               |
|   ...                                                                   |
|                                       +-------------------------------+ |
|                                       | (i) 2 rules exported.      x  | | 1
|                                       +-------------------------------+ |
|                                       | (v) Rule deleted.          x  | | 2
|                                       |     Undo                      | | 3
|                                       +-------------------------------+ |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

• From any module: a form, a subform, a standard module; no control on the form.
• Four kinds (WklToastKind) with color and symbol, an optional bold title.
• One action per note with a Tag that comes back: the event Action, or an expression (ActionFunction) that runs even when the object is gone.
• Never in the way: no focus, no keyboard taken; at most three visible, further notes wait; 4 seconds, 8 with an action, paused under the mouse.
• Keyboard: Ctrl+Shift+Z runs the newest action; F6 enters the newest note once, as F6 reaches the message bar in Office; Esc closes it.
• Screen readers hear each note once when it appears, with the key of its action.

A note belongs to the application. The notes of an Access session share one corner and one queue; Close, CloseAll and Count act on all of them, whichever object showed them. With Form, notes stand in the corner of that form and close with it.

Events need a module-level variable. VBA delivers Action and Closed only to a variable declared WithEvents on module level of a form, report or class. For a note shown from a procedure that ends, name a function in ActionFunction.

A note, not a dialog. Errors and decisions that need an answer belong in a message box: a note disappears.

• How to: Install the released package
• How to: Deploy an application with WKL controls to user PCs
• What the per-user registration writes

• A note's action does nothing, or no note appears

• API reference: WklToast

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