I was looking today at whether I could fix that annoying bug where a modal error message is shown, and if you switch to another application, when you switch back, the modal dialog gets “lost” behind the main window that’s now inactive, so you have to jump through alt-tab hoops to re-activate the window that you’re trying to acknowledge/close.
The first relevant post I came across on Stack Exchange basically said, newer versions of Delphi add some properties like setting the parent of a popup, to overcome this problem. If on the other hand you are using Delphi 7…
Again? Another problem that just upgrading Delphi would fix without a convoluted workaround? It’s not a trivial upgrade to make the app work on a newer version of Delphi, but I could be trading one bucket of problems for another….I just wish there was an edition of Delphi that wasn’t so expensive, or I probably would have already.