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[CyberSurfer]

K... I have a problem.

In one of my projects, I have gotten rid of the nasty blue title bar and created my own. The only problem is, the app no longer shows up on the task bar. How do I make the app show on the task bar, and also respond to clicks etc?

I suspect that this would require manipulating the code for showing your app in the systray, but I don't have the API experience to attempt this myself.

Also, how would I unload every form in the project (ie when the "X" button is clicked)?

Any ideas/solutions gratefully received.

THX!

[Edited by CyberSurfer on 11-27-2000 at 02:37 PM]

[kedaman]

Set showintaskbar property to true of the form.
If you want a systemtray icon you could go download an activeX control from my homepage that does that without any code at all.
To close all forms you use unload statement, loop trough all forms in forms collection:

dim frm as form
For each frm in forms
  Unload frm
next frm

[CyberSurfer]

Thanks kedaman!

When you set the border style to borderless, does it automatically turn off the showintaskbar property? I must confess, I never thought to check!

[kedaman]

Yes, some of the properties of the forms change the others even if that woudn't cause any errors or contradictions, which isn't good. You just have to live with it.