Question

I have a search window in a Delphi7 application that needs to behave differently depending on which form was Active when the search was opened. Specifically, there are two forms that need to have a different button visible on the search, when it should be invisible when coming from all other forms.

Is there a way to access the property that stores the name of a form (either accessing the Name property or even the Caption property) that I can send as a parameter? Or another better/cleaner way of achieving this, if you know of one.

Answer 1

In an MDI application, the main form’s ActiveMDIChild property gives you the currently active child form.