> No, formcreate is the correct event to set up new components. > OnShow may be called multiple times in the lifetime of a form. > > Michael.
In OnShow I use a counter to only do the change on the first show. I've even made a FirstShow event years ago. I trust what you say since you are very experienced in Delphi and Lazarus, however I could swear that I have been bitten by a bug before where not all the components on the form are necessarily initialized in FormCreate. i.e. I could swear that some components, aren't guaranteed to be fully ready, just because a form is created.... Does the form create guarantee the componenents are all ready for modification and initialized, because I could absolutely swear that this has haunted me before where the form itself is ready and created, but that didn't guarantee the children of the form were all ready... So a solution, was to put a counter in FormShow (local const var or whatever you call those strange things that persist like a global, but are still local) and access the components on the first show only. If I could just find one other person that has been haunted by accessing components in formcreate, then I'd confirm I am not imagining things and my memory is solid. However, you've been programming far longer so... I am wanting to trust what you say! -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
