> <Quote> > "How do I create a window that is never covered by any other windows, > not even other topmost windows?" > Imagine if this were possible and imagine if two programs did this. > Program A creates a window that is "super-topmost" and so does Program > B. Now the user drags the two windows so that they overlap. What > happens? You've created yourself a logical impossibility. One of those > two windows must be above the other, contradicting the imaginary > "super-topmost" feature. > </Quote>
That is what Vista is for... see a window through another... so far only the borders shine through, but maybe in Windows 7 MS manages to create fully transparent forms and you can see both super-topmost forms at the same time on the same place..... But aside the kidding... From my Delphi7 application my customers complained about modal forms not being modal. They dissapeared behind the mainform and the user had the impression the application got frozen. This happened for example with my modal login dialog... it just wasn't visible... Someone gave me this solution: 1. Make sure you set the dialogs formstyle to fsStayOnTop In the declaration of the dialog, just above the 'private'section: procedure CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); override; which has: procedure TdlgLogIn.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); begin inherited; Params.WndParent := TWinControl(Owner).handle; end; Don't know what it does exactly, but it sure helped! It survives all other applications! ;-) Well, that said, the taskmanager-form seems to use the same strong stayontop... fwiw! kind regards, John _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
