Hiding a form on a Raspberry Pi
lazarus / 32-Linux

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MadMike · 2014-02-19 15:06

Hi,

I made a form that selects a monitor test pattern (image) and then
displays this in a full screen Timage in a second form (maximized,
boarder style = bsNone).

The second form starts off visible:= false, then is made visible after
a test pattern is selected and the "Go" button is clicked.

I'm trying to make this second form invisible again when the second
form is clicked (so the first form is revealed and the test pattern
can be changed).

I'm not having a lot of luck. I tried 'form2.visible:= false' in a
Tform2.Image1.Click procedure and various other places with no
success.

I'm still paddling in the shallow end when it comes to programming, so
any comments appreciated.

Thanks

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MadMike · 2014-02-26 10:14

You can stop scratching your heads now. I worked it out.

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BigChimp · 2014-02-26 10:49

Nice to hear you solved it.

Would be nice if you posted the solution as well... might help the
next guy with this problem...

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MadMike · 2014-02-26 11:21

Well, I changed the way i looked at things - instead of one form
calling another I put the nimage on the main form, hid the 'select
image' and 'go' buttons (visible:= false) when the test pattern was
selected and showed them again when the mouse button was clicked
anywhere on the image.

So I suppose I didn't solve the problem, I just worked around it.

It would still be nice to know how I can use buttons and such on the
second form to hide, close or transfer focus back to the first.