Title Bar

[dimava]

Is there a way to get a form's caption to appear in the taskbar without having the big blue Title Bar at the top of the screen? If you know the answer please respond, if you're not a regestered user, please e-mail it to [email protected]

Make Caption blank and set the ControlBox to False.

[dimava]

yea but If I do that then the thing in the taskbar will be blank

You can set the BorderStyle to None. If you want your 3-D borders, then just draw them with the Line method.

[dimava]

OK... I guess I didn't explain what I need clearly... I need to hide the big blue bar at the top of the screen do i did the folowing:

From the properys box, I set the value of Control Box to false
and caption to (nothing)

So that the Title Bar won't show.


The Problem I have is, that when I do that in the TASK BAR area, my program's area has an icon and the caption is blank. Now is there a way to set the caption with out having the blue thing at the top of the screen?

[HeSaidJoe]

'Aaron gave this to me some time ago...works fine
'show the icon of a titleless form in taskbar tray

Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" _
Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) _
As Long

Private Const GWL_STYLE = (-16)
Private Const WS_SYSMENU = &H80000

'<<<<<< Form load >>>>>>

Private Sub Form_Load()
Call SetWindowLong(Me.hwnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_SYSMENU)
End Sub

[dimava]

Do you know how to get the caption to appear in the Task Bar Area, and still not have the Title Bar?

[HeSaidJoe]

Sorry...some people text as images...can you use text as an icon...

[dimava]

ok, I'll try that

[HeSaidJoe]

in the Resize event add this :

If Me.WindowState = vbMinimized Then
Me.Caption = "Your Caption"
Else
Me.Caption = ""
End If

Okay, the method I told you before works! Try it. Set the BorderStyle to False and set the ShowInTaskBar property to True.

Now you have a blank grey box with NO Title Bar and it shows the text in the TaskBar.

[dimava]

WOW Thanks MegaTron, it works, and to HeSaidJoe:

I tried that before and when the user was using the form, there was no words in the task bar