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Thanks, You may be right there. Class references sound like they will fit the bill. However, I couldn't get a simple example to compile. From memory the errors seem to indicate that I hadn't defined the class although I assumed that class references must be bound at run time. For the exercise...

I guess, if you simply wanted a form on top, you could call 'ShowModal' but this would block all other processing in your application. For some purposes I use Show() and tie it to formActivate and formDeactivate() but the reason I do this is I don't want the a modal form blocking. My other...

Thankyou for your detailed reply. Unfortunately my problem relates to ptrs to forms. My explanation was not as clear as it could have been. I now believe I've struck a dead end because of the 'circular uses' issue, but if you are curious about the greater details, here it is below... take two...

I'm not sure that you are actually refering to a minimised form. My example is not related to a minimised form. It's been a while since I wrote some code on this subject but I have found that fsStayOnTop doesn't appear to work, or do anything in my particular version of Delphi6. So I implement...

Delphi newby... I have realised (too late) that Delphi does not support circular references between uses clauses. I have two forms that communicate with each other, check values and update values between each others' forms. In C++ I would use a base pointer to pass a reference to the other...

I have been using Delphi6 to rewrite a Delphi1 application. Suddenly the IDE has decided to append 'BDEDesigner' to table field names. I am using a Table component (using context menu) to 'add all fields'. I can't seem to rename the fields in the form type declaration (produces no corresponding...