Keeping modeless dialog forms on top of calling form

ro...@cs.monash.edu.au (Roddi Walker)

Delphi Developer

Fri, 02 Jan 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Keeping modeless dialog forms on top of calling form

Hiya ...

I have written a form which displays some text on a bitmapped background,
which works fine.

I display it with:

TxtDlog.Show;

Fine.

The problem is, when the user clicks on a button on the parent form -
ie. the one that called the text dialog, it comes to the front -
obscuring my text dialog, which I don't want to close (yet).

Help ... is there a way to KEEP a form on the top (ie. visible?).

Thanks,

Roddi

Phil Scadde

Delphi Developer

Sat, 03 Jan 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Re:Keeping modeless dialog forms on top of calling form

Quote

>Help ... is there a way to KEEP a form on the top (ie. visible?).

Set the form style to fsStayOnTop
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Kendall P. Bull

Delphi Developer

Sun, 04 Jan 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Re:Keeping modeless dialog forms on top of calling form

In article <justinm.805969...@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>

Quote

Roddi Walker <ro...@cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> The problem is, when the user clicks on a button on the parent form -
> ie. the one that called the text dialog, it comes to the front -
> obscuring my text dialog, which I don't want to close (yet).

> Help ... is there a way to KEEP a form on the top (ie. visible?).

Change the FormStyle to fsStayOnTop (use the object inspector to edit the form
you want to have remain on top).

Kendall

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