I will take a screen shot in .bmp format tomorrow of both to show the 
difference and send to the list.

Joe Frazier, Jr.
Technical Support Engineer
Peopleclick Service Support

Tel:  +1-800-841-2365
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Linderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:48 PM
> To: Frazier, Joe Jr; Win32 GUI
> Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] no taskbar entry for a Win32::GUI
> program
> 
> 
> 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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> ridiculous.
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> 
> 
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