On approximately 6/25/2003 10:39 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Frazier, Joe Jr:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Linderman
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> On approximately 6/25/2003 7:04 AM, came the following characters
>> from the keyboard of Frazier, Joe Jr:
>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Linderman
>>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:07 PM
>>>>
>>>> From time to time the question has been asked on this list
>>>> about how to have a Win32::GUI program running, but have no
>>>> entry in the taskbar.
>>>>
>>>> When hidden and disabled, no entry will appear, but when shown
>>>> or enabled, it will come back.
>>>
>
> This bit here, in combination with the first sentance was what
> confused me. My solution ( I assume someone on the list presented it
> to me over 2 years ago when I created this app) does show the icon on
> the task bar when the app is viewable on the screen, but not on the
> task bar when minimized. I was just unclear that you mean no taskbar
> icon "ever". Question? is it the disable or the hide that removes
> from the taskbar? I have never really played with various
> combinations to find out what does what in such a situation and what
> happens to the main window compaired to the task bar icon..... Do not
> have time to check right now, but would make for more bulk in the
> documentation being written....
It takes both "hidden" and "disabled" to remove a window's entry from
the taskbar using this technique. And when you "show" or "enable", the
taskbar entry comes back.
>>>> Unless, when you create the window, you use:
>>>>
>>>> -toolwindow => 1,
>>>>
>>>> There is a more complicated solution, involving creating a
>>>
>> fake main
>>
>>>> window, making a real main window with the fake main window as
>>>> a parent, and then deleting the fake main window. This
>>>> technique also works, but is much more complex than the option
>>>> above.
>>>
>
> I just knowticed that this option also seems to get rid of my
> Minimize button??
Hmm. So it does. And it gets rid of the Maximize button too. Except I
see you didn't have a Maximize button already. Looks like -toolwindow
overrides -maximizebox, -minimizebox, and -helpbutton, eliminating them
all, as well as getting rid of the taskbar entry.
> It also makes the "X" to close the
> window like real small (1/3-1/2 normal size). This is on Win 2k.
> Perl 5.6.1, GUI .668.
I'm using Perl 5.8, GUI 0.0.668, for reference.
I don't notice an appreciable difference is the size of my close box "X"
by adding the -toolwindow, for my window definitions. I didn't try your
window definition, though. However, maybe that was due to the fact that
I specified the same -font parameter for both cases. With a -font
parameter, you may be picking up different sized system fonts for the
two cases.
--
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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