Hi, Have you tried 'Application.ShowMainForm := false;' ?
Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Osborn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2002 3:13 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Persistent Main form > > > The problem is that the main form is made visible by > Application.Run(), so > I'd need to hack something that hides it immediately after it > was shown. > > I've tried something like this which looks like it works, but > while running > it doesn't intecept the application's event loop. > > Application.Initialize; > > MainForm := TMainForm.CreateNew(Application); > ReadComponentResFile('MainForm.Res', MainForm); > MainForm.ShowModal; > WriteComponentResFile('MainForm.Res', MainForm); > MainForm.Release; > > Application.Run; > > Bob > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Milham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:26 PM > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Persistent Main form > > > Hi, > > Why not just make the main form hidden and have it create a > form which you > can then treat as the program's main form? > HTH, > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Osborn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 2 October 2002 2:09 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: Persistent Main form > > > Hi All > > I'm having trouble trying to instantiate the main form for an > application by > reading it from a resource file. My objective is to have the > form restore > itself to the same settings as the previous session when it closed. > > I don't have any problems restoring individual controls on the form by > streaming them to and from a stream file using the OnCreate > and OnClose > events, but this seems an inconvenient way of doing it when I > ought to be > able to restore the form in one go. > > I'm able to read and write sub-forms successfully using > Read/WriteComponentResFile() and the CreateNew() class > method, but I can't > do this with the main form because it is created by > Application.CreateForm() > which uses the resource file that is compiled into the .exe. > There doesn't > seem to be any way of switching TApplication's MainForm to > another form and > so I can't see an easy workaround (or any workaround) - but > maybe someone > else has devised a way to do it. > > My apologies if this subject has been thrashed on the list before. > > > Bob Osborn > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
