Need Message Box on Print

[MicMic]

I have a label that needs to print out when a part comes in, but I want a message box to pop up to ask how many copies of the label do they want to print. This is my code so far. Where the Docmd.Print is, I have 2 for the copies, but I want a message box that the user will enter how many they want.

[CODE=vb]Private Sub Command32_Click ()
'Open report in Preview mode
DoCmd.OpenRepor t "Labels Part Labels Dymo", acViewPreview
'Print out specified number of report copies
DoCmd.PrintOut , , , , 2
End Sub[/CODE]

[Laharl]

This is in the wrong place, perhaps you wanted the Visual Basic forum?

[acoder]

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[lee123]

is this an Access Database you have or visual basic, because a "DoCmd" is in MS Access i have never seen it done in visual basic 6

lee123

[kiseitai2]

Please specify what kind of VB are you using (MS Office or VB IDE).

Choices I would implement:
1) Create your custom dialog box, then create a PUBLIC variable (Public copyNumber as Integer), and then pass the number of copies to the main window through the global variable (the one you set to Public) after you showed the Dialog form and got some input from the user.
2) Set a variable and use the InputBox("","") function to get a value for the variable.

Supposing you don't have VB 6 (IDE) and Office follows most of VB 5/6:

Public copyNumber as Integer
Private Sub Command32_Click()
'Open report in Preview mode
    DoCmd.OpenReport "Labels Part Labels Dymo", acViewPreview
'Ask for # of copies
frmAsk.show()
'frmAsk is the custom dialog form created for option 1.
'If you can't use .show(), try .visible = true
'Print out specified number of report copies
'Pass the number of copies
    DoCmd.PrintOut , , , , copyNumber
End sub

Supposing you have VB IDE:

Private Sub Command32_Click()
'Open report in Preview mode
    DoCmd.OpenReport "Labels Part Labels Dymo", acViewPreview
'Ask for # of copies
Dim i as Integer
'The function InputBox is in VB 6 but I don't know if it is in VB for Office (try it anyways)
i = InputBox("Replace with Prompt", "Replace with Title for the Dialog Box")
'Print out specified number of report copies
'Pass the number of copies
    DoCmd.PrintOut , , , , i
End sub

I really hope ou got your answer.