Prevent form from coming to front

[User137]

On 1 application i'm using form.BringToFront. May or may not be what you are after. There's more you can test with, like Application.Restore...

[Carver413]

In lazarus you can use this to lock focus to a single form, I believe this will work with delphi as well.

Form.ShowModal;

[czar]

Thanks for replying. I haven't seen application.restore before, I will check out what that does. The showmodal is great when you have multiple forms within same project but I have an issue where I have to launch another exe that in turn opens up dlls containing software for the students to work on. It has always worked well in the past. Anyway, I have since got a work around that seems to be holding. fingers xed

[Dan]

you can try some of these calls with the application that you want to bring up. I guess it's best to call them on FormShow if you are using a form event.
BringWindowToTop(Application.Handle);
SetForegroundWindow(Application.Handle);
SetActiveWindow(Application.Handle);