Yes, that is bizaar. I have this setup working fine when the form is in the
same app. It's only when I use a DLL that I get the problems.
>From: Nahum Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [DUG]: Loading forms from dynamic DLL's and enbedding them
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:01:33 +1200
>
>I think that I have experienced similiar behaviour when doing this, but not
>from a DLL though. My problem was
>that the form to be imbeded in the panel was initially bigger than the
>panel
>it was to go on. For same bizzar reason the aligning of the form did not
>work properly and I got the visual behaviour that you discribe. I made the
>form smaller than the panel at design time and that fixed it. The version
>of Delphi that I was using at the time may also have been a factor.
>
>
>Nahum
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter G Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, 13 May 2000 02:07
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: [DUG]: Loading forms from dynamic DLL's and enbedding them
> >
> >
> > There's a virtual chocolate fish available to the person who
> > can solve this
> > one.
> >
> > I have a DLL that includes a form that I want to display
> > embedded into a
> > shell application. The DLL is dynamically loaded by the
> > shell which then
> > calls a startup procedure that is exported by the DLL. To
> > the startup
> > procedure it passes a TPanel.
> >
> > When the embedded form draws itself inside the panel, it
> > get's confused
> > about it's size and the bottom and right of the form is lost
> > outside of the
> > containing panel.
> >
> > I have created a small demo app and dll that demonstrates
> > this which I can
> > provide on request.
> >
> > Has anyone else done this sort of thing succesfully cause
> > this is driving me
> > nuts and I need it fixed, like, last month.
> >
> >
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