Application with 2 forms

[No_name]

Hello, I'm new at Lazarus and I've a problem: in my application there are 2 forms: the main and another. How can I show  the second after menu click ?
I've tried with:
Form2.Create;
Form2.Show;
but always said me "Access violation"

Best regard,
   by E0S

[Giuseppe Ridinò]

My application has 3 forms and I have no problems.
 :arrow: Just use Form2.Show.
Form2.Create isn't necessary if you create the Form2 with Lazarus IDE.
You need to use Form2.Create only if you build it in run-time.

[Vincent Snijders]

Forms are normaly autocreated and a reference is stored in a global variable (Form2 in your case), if you don't indicate otherwise as pepecito mentioned.

Also remember a form is an object.

So to create a form at run-time, you have to do something like:

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var
  MyForm2: TForm2;
begin
  MyForm2 := TForm2.Create;
  MyForm2.ShowModal;
  MyForm2.Free; //if you use Show, be sure to free it in an OnClose event.
end;


[trlpht]

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So to create a form at run-time, you have to do something like:

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var
  MyForm2: TForm2;
begin
  MyForm2 := TForm2.Create;
  MyForm2.ShowModal;
  MyForm2.Free; //if you use Show, be sure to free it in an OnClose event.
end;


The access violation occurs when you are not sure of who owns the form.  Do you not need to pass a parameter to the create method to specify this?  I was getting this error and it left me when I created a form in this manner:

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...
begin
MyForm2.Create(Application);
MyForm2.Show
end;
...

Regards

[Marc]

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...
begin
MyForm2.Create(Application);
MyForm2.Show
end;
...


You cant use the variable MyForm2 to create a class. The variable has first to be assigned. So use  

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MyForm2 := TMyForm2.Create(Application);

Contrary to C++ the MyForm2 variable is just a pointer to an object (which has to be created first). Declaring a objectr variable doesn't mean that it is created.