taskbar

hi,

as you may or maynot know i am creating my on shell,

how can i create my own taskbar, so when i minimise my programs they minimise to here

all suggestions greatly recieved


Merlin ?

I'm not too sure what you mean. Why don't you just use your form's showintaskbar property, and use the Windows taskbar.

If you want to have some sort of floating task bar, or pallete, you could use a small, non resizable form that stays on top of everything else. You could have a graphic that is invisible on this smaller form, and becomes visible when your main program is minimized.

Then when the image on this smaller form is clicked, your main program maximizes again, and the image becomes invisible, or whatever. Just an idea....

I would say that would be a fairly involved process.
I'm not too sure, but I think you would have to retrieve a list of all the programs currently running (which I know there's an API call to do), then work out their windowstates (not too sure about this), and act accordingly. When a user clicks on a button symbolising a minimized app, you'd have to send a message to the app to restore or maximize.
I doubt there would be a quick and easy way to do all this from VB, but good luck.

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