[lazarus] LCL: TApplication.FHandle

[Nikolai Zhubr]

Hi,
Monday, 29 September, 2003, 18:49:01, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> I'm not sure, but windows allocates a handle for each started process.
> My guess was that Application.Handle represents this handle.

No, IIRC delphi's TApplication explicitely creates an invisible window
which subsequentally becomes a parent window for all forms' windows.
This results, for example, in that there are no separate buttons for
each form on the taskbar but just one. This invisible mega-parent is
kept in Application.Handle. It sometimes appears usefull to do

     SetForegroundWindow(Application.Handle);
     ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_RESTORE);
     
to get user's attention :)
-- 
Best regards,
 Nikolai Zhubr

> However, looking at the VCL code, it doesn't look at this at all...
> so I'm as confused as you are ...

> Michael.

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