[Lazarus] Embedding a standard dialogue

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Apologies for my lousy threading here, a message got chopped by our 
firewall.

 > > Is it possible to embed a standard dialogue in a custom form? For
 > > example, if I wanted to filter text input through a user-specified
 > > regular expression, can I set up a form containing a file-open
 > > dialog plus an edit box for the regex, or do I have to implement
 > > it from scratch?
 >
 > No, you must create your own dialog from scratch.
 >
 > Juha

OK, If I can lead on from this. The cause of bug 21792 that I raised 
yesterday is, I'm told, that I'd set the main form visible but 
minimised. The reason I'd done this is that before the form was 
displayed I wanted the user to provide database login credentials, I 
couldn't rely on a standard dialogue for that since I also needed to 
have him select what kind of database- PostgreSQL or Firefox- as well as 
the server and possibly port.

What is the correct thing to do in this sort of situation? I've seen a 
description of a hack for Delphi which relied on creating the main form 
manually, should something like that be attempted for Lazarus?

Or should I simply redo the app so that the login is the main form?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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