Has anyone had an trouble referencing the Name property of a Form?
Ever time I try to access the Name (show below), nothing is returned.

formname := Screen.ActiveForm.Name;

Does anyone have the URL of the Delphi site which maintains the list
of known bugs?

Thanks,

Mike Williams
mlwil...@ix.netcom.com

"formname := Screen.ActiveForm.Name"

Name is a property of form, not of screen.  Try:

formname := frmMyForm.name;

where formname is a string variable and frmMyForm is the name of the form.

Jim

        Um, actually name is a property of TForm and Screen.ActiveForm is
of type TForm so this should be OK. If the types were off it would be a type
mismatch error but it isn't.
        When I look at Length(screen.activeForm.Name) I get 0. (???)

        I get the same results.

??? anyone?

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        So it would appear. Does this make sense to you (and if yes could
you explain it to me?)

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Hi Mike,

I know that Form1.Name returns an empty string at runtime, so I
suspect that Screen.ActiveForm.Name also has this "feature".
Regards Niek.

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On 16 Dec 1995 18:14:24 GMT, David Ullrich <ullr...@math.okstate.edu>
wrote:

You can create multiple instances of the same form at run-time. If
they all have the same Name, what purpose does the Name property
serve? The Name just tells you the type of the form (minus a leading
'T'). If you need a unique identifier for every form instance at
run-time, you need to manage that yourself. The Name property cannot
help you.

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Ray Lischner         (li...@tempest-sw.com)
Tempest Software, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

On Sat, 23 Dec 1995 19:04:37 GMT, li...@tempest-sw.com (Ray Lischner)
wrote:

Regardless of the purpose, the fact remains that there seems to be a
problem accessing the Name property.  

I believe, with a little creativity, you might be able to come up with
a useful purpose for accessing the Name proprety -- I did.

Mike Williams
mlwil...@ix.netcom.com