I regularly change the Application Title in the main form and it has never crashed. I use it to display progress of some processing while the app is minimized.
Ross. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barton Bresnik Sent: Friday, 3 August 2007 13:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: crashes when I try to use Application.Title This issue may trace back to MS Windows API: memory must be allocated for the title. If you set the title at design time, Delphi is usually intelligent enough to pre-allocate the memory. At run time, setting it equal to a string value will crash an app, because strings are lifetime-managed: once it goes out of scope (e.g. at the end of a procedure), the title points to an invalid location. Work-arounds: global strings that last the lifetime of the app; allocate memory for a buffer; allocate an array of char... Bart _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
