Is there a way to show modal without showing modal?
lazarus / 10-Designer

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cybersmyth · 2011-02-17 14:52

I know that doesn't make any sense, but here's the situation I'm in:
My app downloads files from a FTP server and works with them then
uploads some output. To do this, I made a separate FTP form where I
set the parameters for what files to get or put and then ShowModal the
form. So I have the FTP from set to return mrAbort if there is any
kind of FTP error and mrOk if everything is downloaded properly. This
has worked as a pretty good solution, but I have some people who want
to run the app in the background and the FTP progress form popping up
really seems to bug them.

I still want to keep the modal operations because I want to make sure
the main form doesn't do anything while the FTP progress form is
working, but I need some way to hide the FTP progress form if the user
doesn't wants to see it.

Any thoughts?

-Joe

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BlueIcaro · 2011-02-17 15:22

Try to stay on the top, in the property FormStyle. And then show your
normaly (form1.show);

/BlueIcaro

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mas steindorff · 2011-02-17 15:57

I agree with your users!  The computer belongs to the user, not to
your software.  I hate it when I'm typing away on a report and Windose
does some pop-up that takes away my key strokes.  worse yet, some
times I hit some key that the pop-up uses to shutdown or start doing
something...    If you must modal, think about these things. 

You can set a flag in your main form that will disable the
controls/panels you don't what the user to access while the FTP form
is up.  Use the same event as you are now to clear the flag and re-
enable the controls.  When your main form's controls are disabled, you
should also have it's onclick event re-show your FTP form in case it
ends up behind something.