LKBEN11100: Howto find the mainform in Delphi


Symptom

You are programming in pascal and need to find the mainform

Cause

Pascal (Delphi) has a predefined structure which can be used to find the mainform quickly

Solution

You open the dpr file from the project and look at the end. You will find things like:

...
Application.Initialize;
Application.Title := 'Appname';
Application.CreateForm(TMainForm, MainForm);
...

The first form that has been created, is the form that will start the application after the "Application.Run" command in the delphi source code

...
Application.Run;
...

Hope this makes your life easier.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.