Keeping focus on a form after launching a web page
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MaxCuriosus · 2025-05-29 13:48

If, from a Form/Listbox, I open a web page with this procedure

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i Procedure
Open_URL(URL:String);Var  Process: TProcess;  I: Integer;Begin 
Process:=TProcess.Create(nil);  try   
Process.InheritHandles:=False;//  Process.Options:=[];       
Process.Options:=[poDetached];    Process.ShowWindow:=swoShow;    for
I:=1 to GetEnvironmentVariableCount do
Process.Environment.Add(GetEnvironmentString(I));   
Process.Executable:='xdg-open';    Process.Parameters.Add(URL);   
Process.Execute;  finally    Process.Free;  end;end;
the web page gets automatically the focus.
I would like instead that the focus stays on the Form/Listbox.
How can I do that?

System
  OS: Debian 12
  Desktop: GNOME
  Session: x11
  Lararus/FPC: 2.2.4/3.2.2/gtk2

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jamie · 2025-05-29 14:28

First of all, it's more readable if you put your code within a Code
tag but that's fine for here since it wasn't over the top.

You can try Application.BringToFront; which DOCS states it brings the
last form to the front. do that at the end of your execution I guess.

 If that does not work, use the OnDeactivate event for the form and
the TAG value to be used as a flag so that you can then use the Show
in that form once again to bring it back.

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MaxCuriosus · 2025-05-29 14:41

Code tag corrected/added.
Will try what you suggested.