Making “Stay-on-top-forms” do want you want in Delphi

[dummzeuch 1386]

There is an article by Peter Laman on the topic Making “Stay-on-top-forms” do want you want on the Embarcadero blog. It’s from 2004 and of course the link to the component he talks about no longer works, because it points to cc.borland.com which no longer exists.

 

https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2018/11/05/making-stay-on-top-forms-do-want-you-want-in-delphi/

[stijnsanders 35]

If I remember correctly, the main thing of magic beauty tweaking the Windows GUI happens in the CreateParams override. Many nice things happen there if you know what you're doing. I personally like the Params.WndParent field, (though modern Delphi versions since I learned about it have introduced "Application.MainFormOnTaskbar")

[Alexander Elagin 143]

WS_EX_APPWINDOW is also a nice extended style for startup / login forms. CreateParams is a very valuable method indeed!