[Lazarus] Form to front

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 18:20:37 CET 2009


2009/10/29 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> On 29/10/2009, SteveG <steveg at nevets.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>  eg - an alert msg/form to be forced to top/front every x seconds until
>>  acknowledged. Needs to be brought to top/front again even if user clicks on
>
> On a side note:
>  Be warned, users HATE that!  It would drive me nuts as well.

Definitely.  It's considered a Very Bad Thing and you'd probably also
find that sane window managers prevent other applications from
stealing the focus.  Rather use the notification area for this (I
think there's a standard interface for it).

Henry




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