Hi Ross, Are you sure your not talking about changing the caption string as opposed to the application title ?
KR, Grant Brown Ross Levis wrote: > I regularly change the Application Title in the main form and it has never > crashed. I use it to display progress of some processing while the app is > minimized. > > Ross. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Barton Bresnik > Sent: Friday, 3 August 2007 13:55 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: crashes when I try to use Application.Title > > This issue may trace back to MS Windows API: memory must be allocated for > the title. If you set the title at design time, Delphi is usually > intelligent enough to pre-allocate the memory. At run time, setting it equal > to a string value will crash an app, because strings are lifetime-managed: > once it goes out of scope (e.g. at the end of a procedure), the title points > to an invalid location. > > Work-arounds: global strings that last the lifetime of the app; allocate > memory for a buffer; allocate an array of char... > > Bart > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > -- Kind Regards Grant Brown SiteDoc Pty Ltd mob: 0412 926 995 www.sitedoc.com.au __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This email message together with any attachments is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply email (or telephone SiteDoc Pty Ltd on +61 2 42291185) and immediately delete this email together with any attachments from your computer. If you are the intended recipient, you must not copy, disclose, reproduce or distribute this communication together with any attachments without the authority of SiteDoc Proprietary Limited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. Unless specifically stated by the sender as the views of SiteDoc Proprietary Limited, any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and no responsibility will be borne by SiteDoc Proprietary Limited for its content or outcomes. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
