Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Taskbar & perl2exe -gui crash

2001-05-28 Thread Glenn Linderman
By "more general", I was looking for "all toolbars that are docked to the edge of the screen". I'm pretty much a Windows-idiot, although pretty good at programming generic Perl, so I'm still stumbling over the Windows terminology. So how do you tell if a windows is "topmost"? Maybe "all toolbars

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Taskbar & perl2exe -gui crash

2001-05-28 Thread Piske, Harald
I'm impressed - here's somebody who knows how to translate general ideas into formal terminology. I don't have a solution at hand but with what you say, you should be able to figure it out. I'm not aware of any ready-made windoze function to give you the "effective desktop client area after account

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Taskbar & perl2exe -gui crash

2001-05-28 Thread Glenn Linderman
"Piske, Harald" wrote: > I'm impressed - here's somebody who knows how to translate general ideas > into formal terminology. Thanks for the attaboy. It was just what I needed to inspire further research... > I don't have a solution at hand but with what you > say, you should be able to figure i

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Avoiding the Taskbars

2001-05-28 Thread Glenn Linderman
OK, here's sample Perl/Win32::GUI/Win32::API code for positioning windows on the desktop while avoiding any/all Windows "appbars" and the Windows "taskbar" (which was the first appbar, and still seems to be a bit special among appbars). If you don't like my "negative number means right or bottom

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Show In Taskbar

2001-05-28 Thread Glenn Linderman
Johan Lindstrom wrote: > This was discussed some time ago on the list. What we figured out then was > that creating a window with a -parent => $winParent will make the new > window a child window. It will stay on top of the parent window and it will > not be displayed in the task bar. > > I'm not