Calling a dll to display a calendar BUT need to stop processing windows messages

[RTollison 0]

i have a calendar dll that pops up on the center of the form where it is called from. works fine but there is an issue. the calendar control is from TMS Software and i have worked with them but the issue doesn't happen to them. on the calendar control there are navigation buttons at the top of the control (previous year, previous month, next month and next year. The calendar is set to popup center of form (long story best solution) so if a developer of the application form put a button in a select spot on their form when calling the dll to popup the calendar IF the MOUSE is OVER any of the prev, next buttons i get an memory access violation, click ok and the calendar works great. move along. since that window are is limited if the user, say clicks the bottom right of a button then no error. But if they click the middle then the error pops up. So i know it has something to do with probably trying to get/display the Hints (my guess). i have sent a sample project to TMS and they don't get the error. so they sent me back the compiled project and I also don't get the error. Made sure that we are on the same version and we are. 

Now my question is this, is the a way to stop the processing of the hint while the control/form is being created.

First thing the dll does is

    frmCalendar := TfrmCalendar.Create(nil);

is there a way to stop hint message, create the control then enable hint messages?

[RTollison 0]

I managed to modify the source for the plannercalendar control and commented out the offending code without affecting the control (on the surface) but it is working within my code and it suits my purposes.

have tested in multiple projects with the plannercalendar and it is working fine everywhere that i use it.

 

Thanks.

[Stano 145]

I guess it would be good to give TMS

[David Heffernan 2406]

Could be anything. Could be that you are splitting a vcl app between an exe and a dll. Sounds like you haven't diagnosed the problem yet. That's what I would try to do first rather than trial and error ideas like you are asking us for help with. 

[yonojoy 2]

We had a similar error with TMS TPlannerCalendar: The TMS code had an assumption, that mouse events are always processed after the paint message (where FCanvas was set). But this did not always hold true, eg if the control was created invisible.

 

Our workaround was to force a call to Paint in FormCreate of the form holding the planner control:

 

procedure WorkaroundPlannerCalendarCanvasAccessViolation(ACalendar: TPlannerCalendar);
begin
    ACalendar.BeginUpdate;  
    TPlannerCalendarCracker(ACalendar).Paint();  //forces initialization of TPlannerCalendar.FCanvas
    ACalendar.EndUpdate;
end;

 

Edited November 23, 2021 by yonojoy
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