Making a form like the Windows Taskbar

[andrew_waycott]

I want to make a form that looks and behaves like the Windows Task bar or the MS Office Toolbar. I don't know how to make it so other applications will not use that screen space like the Taskbar does.

Suggestions?

[HeSaidJoe]

'to make form stay topmost

'put this in a bas module
'
Public Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, _
ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, _
ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long

Global Const SWP_NOMOVE = 2
Global Const SWP_NOSIZE = 1
Global Const FLAGS = SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOSIZE
Global Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Global Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2

'=============================================
'
'put this in events click or load or whatever
'or hardcopy
'To set Form1 as a TopMost form, do the following:

res& = SetWindowPos (Form1.hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, _
0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS) 
'if res&=0, there is an error

'To turn off topmost (make the form act normal again):

res& = SetWindowPos (Form1.hWnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, _
0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS)

[andrew_waycott]

Yes, that will make it always on top, but the other applications will still sit under it. I want it so if, for example, I maximise a window, I will still see the form at the top and the taskbar at the bottom and neither will cover the maximised application.

Any Ideas?

[HeSaidJoe]

You will need to set the window positons.
A good place to begin.

http://www.vbapi.com/