[Lazarus] TLabel or TStaticText?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:42:52 +0100
frans via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> I thougth of that, but I need the focus on the original form. The 
> mesaage is only informative, all the functionality must be availabe.
> 
> mvg
> Frans van Leeuwen
> M 06-51695390
> 
> Op 15-3-2019 om 14:08 schreef John Landmesser via lazarus:
> > what about a new form with FormStyle := fsSystemStayOnTop ?!
> >
> > Am 15.03.19 um 12:37 schrieb frans via lazarus:  
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm using Lazarus 1.8.4 on Win10. In my application I have a Form 
> >> with 2 functions. (1) Is to download files from an internet server 
> >> using ftp, (2) is to store the data from those files in the 
> >> datacollection.
> >> Sometimes I loose my internet connection and in that case I want
> >> to show a warning in the the middle of the form and in front of
> >> all the other components. For the warning I use a TLabel component
> >> for the layout parameter tlCenter. But the label is partly hidden
> >> behind another component (TFileListBox) and BringToFront doesn't
> >> help. Now I tried a TStaticText component and that works just
> >> fine. Except that it has no Layout property and no Paint procedure
> >> I could override. Is there a component that gives me all the
> >> behaviour I want? Is there a way to bring the TLabel realy in
> >> front of all other components? Is there a way to vertical align
> >> the text of a TStaticText caption?

You can put the TLabel inside a TPanel.

Mattias