First of all I would question your choice to only hide this form if the backup was successful. I never leave any forms in memory after they are no longer or immediately needed. It makes little sense from a resource point of view. I would simply call the Form's close method and then in the Form's OnClose Method I would run my "NoErrors" test. If True then I would set the form to nil and call Action := caFree; If False I would call Action := caNone and use the showMessage or MessageDlg to inform the user that he may need to try again or whatever you want your alternate choice to be. Provided the ShowMessage is the last call made for that particular branch it should stay on top of the calling form. I think the reason it's not in your case might have something to do with it not being able to function properly after a Hide command, thus it reappears above the ShowMessage. I've noticed twice before where it seems that calling Hide is usually of less value than setting the Form's visible property to False!
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 moderator for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer von Saleski Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:25 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: Form won't hide (sometimes) When a unit finishes its work, I want the form to disappear and I want to display a message to let the user know how things went. So I've tried the obvious: Backup.Hide; if NoErrors then ShowMessage ('Backup Completed OK') else ShowMessage ('*** BACKUP FAILED ***'); My problem is that this works as expected when run from the Delphi 7 development environment ... but when run from the executable file, the form does not disappear, and the ShowMessage box is displayed BEHIND the Backup form (which is supposed to be hidden). And, yes, the focus has moved to the message box (which confuses everyone, because it can't be seen). So ... what magic invocation do I need to make the Hide actually take effect? 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
