Form Docking... Docking the Form... The Form Needs To Be Docked...

[Compwiz]

I know this is kinda doing my homework, but I have been trying to dock a form for a long time (very), and I keep getting errors. Can somebody be nice enough to help me out here? The form should be docked at startup. Thanx.

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[MartinLiss]

Are you sure you want to dock one of your forms? Maybe the task is to dock one of the windows in the IDE.

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Marty

[Compwiz]

I need to dock a form that I made to the top of the desktop, exactly like the Start Menu in Windows (obviously - but I'm posting this in Linux), only at the top of the screen.

[MartinLiss]

Put the following in the form's Load event. Is thatwhat you want?

Me.Move 0, 0


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Marty

[Compwiz]

No, I want the form to be docked... like the task bar.

[MartinLiss]

Sorry, but you've got me stumped. If this is in fact homework, tell the prof that it's too tough (and I've been doing VB for a long time). If you learn how to do it, I'd appreciate a note telling me how.

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Marty

[ShadowCrawler]

Heh, ok, this shouldn't be that hard to figure out. Place the form, and have it come out and disappear on mousemove events :-)

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[Compwiz]

NO!!! DOCKED! IT SHOULD BE DOCKED. I DON'T WANT AN AUTO-HIDE, I WANT IT TO BE DOCKED. IF YOU USE THE AllAdvantage Viewbar (http://www.alladvantage.com/join.asp?refid=dlk474) THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!!

[This message has been edited by Compwiz (edited 11-11-1999).]

[Crazy D]

If you open your MSDN and search for Shell App Bar (on the search tab, not the index tab) you'll get a lot of infop about how to make an Application Toolbar (since that's the official name I believe)
There's a sample around on the net, although I forgot where I've seen it.
Indeed, not the easiest thing to do, and requires a lot of subclassing.But definitely not impossible, even from within VB.
Oh and please ask next time "how do I make an application like the windows taskbar" that makes it lots easier :-))

[Phobic]

Happy Birthday! (http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/AppBar.htm)

Next time, just conduct a little search through the forums for 'dock', that's what I just did.

[This message has been edited by Phobic (edited 11-11-1999).]

[KENNNY]

YES U R GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS m8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!