[Lazarus] Question about modal forms behaviour under windows

[Denis Kozlov]

@zeljko

I've just tested your fixes in latest TRUNK on Windows 7 and it's looking
good!

Have you considered changing the behaviour where the modal form is getting
squashed into a corner when application gets minimized?

Instead of squashing every modal form into a corner of the desktop (as
demonstrated on the screenshot below), it would be better to minimize them
as non-modal forms, i.e. minimize into the taskbar with the main form. Do
you think its feasible?

[image: Inline images 1]


On 8 February 2016 at 10:25, zeljko <zeljko at holobit.net> wrote:

> On 02/08/2016 11:00 AM, Denis Kozlov wrote:
>
>>
>> There is a long standing bug report about this particular topic:
>> 0026463: Application minimize not working with modal forms
>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26463
>>
>> *Issue 1*: Application.Minimize should always minimize the entire
>> application, including modal forms. Currently, the modal form will get
>> squashed into a corner while other disabled windows will keeping hanging
>> on the desktop.
>>
>> *Issue 2*: Minimizing a modal form, provided that it has the minimize
>> button enabled, should call Application.Minimize with the effect as
>> described in Issue 1.
>>
>>
> Your opinion is correct. Thanks for the info, I'll assign that issue to my
> self and fix it soon.
>
> zeljko
>
>
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