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Lawrence Tuppen · Guest

C++ Builder 6

I have three forms. Forms 2 and 3 are children, I can see one or the other.
I want to start with Form2 visible, but it always starts with Form3.
I tried "Form2->Show()" at the end of Form3's FormCreate but it does not
work.
The same code works later (when I doubleclick in Form3 or click a menu
item).

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Lawrence Tuppen
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Mike Crapo · Guest

This is due to the creation order. You can do one of two things.

1) Remove form 3 from your projects Auto-Created forms and over to
available forms. This will make it so you will need to create form 3
dynamically when you want it. - This is found in the Project / Options
menu, under the Forms tab.

2) Change the form creation order within you main .cpp file.

Change:
Application->CreateForm(__classid(TForm1), &Form1);
Application->CreateForm(__classid(TForm2), &Form2);
Application->CreateForm(__classid(TForm3), &Form3);

To:
Application->CreateForm(__classid(TForm1), &Form1);
Application->CreateForm(__classid(TForm3), &Form3);
Application->CreateForm(__classid(TForm2), &Form2);

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:06:01 +0100, "Lawrence Tuppen"
<tuppenl (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote:

Lawrence Tuppen · Guest

Thank you. I have done (2) and it works well. I will remember (1) for the
future. I have only just started with Builder (its a price thing) and I am
trying to rewrite my old C++ programs into Builder. My next challenge is to
control window size dynamically depending on content, which was not all that
easy under C++ and is not even mentioned in my 'learn Builder' book. Thank
goodness I dont work for a living any more. Once again, thanks for your
help. You have made an old man happy.

<Mike Crapo> wrote