Peter, thanks for your insight. Any chance you could give me some examples
of how to achieve this. Sounds like the way to go.
Cheers,
Matt.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter G Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: question.
> With Delphi 5 (I beleive earlier versions may behave differently) the only
> way I got this to work was to use a dynamically loaded runtime package.
> With a standard DLL, the form would not get tab key presses and menu's
> wouldn't work either. With a runtime package everything works just fine.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Comb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:56 PM
> Subject: [DUG]: question.
>
>
> > Hi people,
> >
> > another stupid question from me coming up.
> >
> > In the past when I have dealt with loading forms from a dll I have
always
> > done the standard showmodal and release method.
> >
> > Now I need a form that will essentially embed itself in the calling form
> so
> > that buttons on the original form can still be pressed while edit boxes
on
> > the second (called from dll) form are still receiving the focus.
> >
> > Can anyone offer me some advice.
> >
> > The desired effect can be achieved within an application by just going
> > form2.parent:=form1; and then call form2.setfocus. You can still click
the
> > buttons on form1 but form2 still receives input.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Matt.
> >
>
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