What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi?

Question

I was having my usual stroll around and bumped on some frames discussions.

I\'m mainly a Delphi hobbyist and not a professional, so I had to learn how to use TFrames my o

Answer 1

This is more a negative answer, but I tried a route that included reparenting TFrames for a bit complex GUI.

At first it went fine, but when the application matured and more events started flying, I had to disable and then process messages for a while (20ms) before changing, and then still occasionally had crashes when changing frame.

One of the culprits I eventually found, TPopmenu also registers itself in global datastructures. This reduced the problems, but they were still there, so I move away from the concept.