Could you set a flag on a click/launch event - and every time you get a
request to launch an app you check to see if the flag is set. On child app
completion, the flag is cleared so a new app can be fired up...
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Comb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 17 May 1999 16:29
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: position of applications.
Hello.
This is a repeat of a bug that I had some time ago and that still haunts me
to this day. Maybe some of you gurus can give me a hand. (Please note, you
will be considered a guru if you manage to solve this bug!)
We have a Suite of applications in our system, all custom written in Delphi.
There is 1 main menu and about 800 modular programs of about 1-2mb each.
Which amounts to a lot of apps.
We use the main menu to launch the modular programs and then when the
program is completed it returns focus to the main menu application.
My problem is that some times when a module program is launched a user can
click too quickly on the mainmenu again or double click and a second program
is run which should not be able to happen, in other words the user should
not be able to choose the window order for the programs. I tried to fix the
problem by putting a delay of one second before a second program could be
run from the main menu and also sent the main menu to the back of windows in
the onactivate method so that it could never be functional when a program
was supposed to be running from it.
Keeping in mind that because our system is so large (it has to be- lots of
multimedia stuff) what is the best way to position applications and make
sure that they are always on top of the main menu. There was a reason why I
couldn't just make the program applications be fsstayontop or whatever but I
can't remember what that was now. With the current bug and how I have
horridly fixed it, you cannot have any other windows open when you launch or
you can get them popping up between the mainmenu and the module programs.
Any help in this area would be much appreciated.
Matt.
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