RE: [DUG]: Windows quirks and inexperienced users

[Dave . Jollie]

Thanks Nello, I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm unsure how to accomplish this.   What happens is that when I do an automatic email (from within my app), my screen changes to the Outlook screen. (XP brings up messages warning that a program is using Outlook and it could be a virus etc). Then my program does a MessageDlg('fax now sent to fax queue'.... Command. However, now the focus is on Outlook, so a task item for the dialog is created on the task bar. If I go to the task bar and click on my main app icon (not on the dialog task), then it "appears" as though my app has bombed when in fact the MessageDlg is sitting on the task bar waiting to be Ok'ed.   Any ideas?   Thanks.   Dave Jollie Tower NZ IT 09 368 4259   -----Original Message----- From: Nello Sestini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 28 March 2003 2:48PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Windows quirks and inexperienced users   if i'm following this correctly, i think the problem is that the "fax sent... " dialog is modal - so it blocks all keystroke/mouse input sent to the main window of the app.   one way to get around this (if it's your app) is to make that dialog modeless - and then enforce the "modal" features that you want (for example not allowing the user to do anything else until they cancel the dialog).   If the dialog is modeless - then taskbar clicks and attempts to click into the main application window will work as expected.       -ns http://www.roserox.co.th     ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 09:32 Subject: [DUG]: Windows quirks and inexperienced users   Hi all   I have a mail merge app which has a button for sending off a letter as a fax to the client. It has a dialog which comes back at the end of the process, saying "Fax sent to fax queue".   In some instances, inexperienced users (not familiar with Windows) have sidetracked off to e.g. read an email, and then clicked back on the task bar item for the letters program again. When they try to exit the program, and it doesn't respond, they use ctrl-alt-delete! But if they'd looked on the task bar, they would have found another entry, which was the "Fax sent to fax queue" dialog, still waiting for the "OK" to be clicked.   How do I help them out? Is there a way to change the behaviour of Windows, so that when clicking on a parent form, if there is a child form / dialog still outstanding (not dealt with), then it re-focuses to this? I'm new to Windows programming, so this may be a silly or easy question.   Also, is it easy to trap the ctrl-alt-delete event and give a controlled response to the users desire to kill my app?   Any suggestions appreciated. TIA.   Dave Jollie Tower NZ IT 09 368 4259