'lo all, have a strange problem afflicting a kylix 2 application.

Take a project with 2 forms, Form1 & Form2, put a TTimer on Form1, and give 
it the following code:

  procedure TForm1.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject);
  begin
    Form2.ShowModal;
    Caption := 'Boo';
  end;

Form2 displays, but shortly afterwards, about a second, Form1's caption is 
set to Boo, whilst the modal form is still displayed.

I've just tried the exact same thing under Delphi 5, and shortly after 
Form2 is displayed, I get an exception saying "EInvalidOperation with 
message 'Cannot make a visible window modal".

I noticed that Form2 was still in the AutoCreate list, removing it, and 
creating/freeing a TForm2 instance in the timer solved the problem in both 
the Delphi and Kylix versions.

But why is this?  When Form2 was being autocreated, it wasn't being shown, 
so why would ShowModal cause problems?

Mark



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