Thank you! OnActivate is just what I was looking for ... it works great. I had considered putting the guts of the code in the calling form, but that would have put two main subsections in the program's main form ... hardly good structured programming technique, and hard to maintain.
Does anyone know of a concise chart or diagram of how the different events are invoked during form execution? I would have expected to find this in the manual, but I cannot. Thanks, Rainer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Meek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Borland's Delphi Discussion List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:27 PM Subject: RE: A form that runs when Shown, with no user action Yes you're right! I forgot to mention that I also add a Boolean var set to False when the app starts, or the form is created, and then set it to true when activated the first time. After that any code in the activate won't run again. from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" freeware Windows apps and utilities located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Proud to be a moderotor for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Thompson Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:27 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: RE: A form that runs when Shown, with no user action OnActivate is useful but be careful that it may be fired repeatedly if the user clicks away from the form and back again. Check this behaviour. You may want to prevent the form getting focus from the mouse etc and activate it only programmatically. (OTTOMH) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Meek Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2005 6:40 PM To: 'Borland's Delphi Discussion List' Subject: RE: A form that runs when Shown, with no user action Use the Form's OnActivate event, and in your Form's OnShow you may also have to add a call to YourForm.Setfocus. from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" freeware Windows apps and utilities located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Proud to be a moderotor for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer von Saleski Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:06 PM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: A form that runs when Shown, with no user action How do I go about having a form that "runs" (does something) when Shown, with no additional user action (beyond that which caused to form to be shown)? When I put my action code inside the OnShow event handler, the form does not actually display until the actions are complete. But I want to keep the user informed during the 60 seconds or so it takes to do the action (compress a bunch of files into a ZIP file and email it). This happens at the end of a chain of other events, and if I make the user press a "Run" button after the form is displayed, half the time the users forget to press it, and the backup files never get sent. There must be a simple answer ... Thanks, Rainer _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
