Docking a form to the Desktop?

I have a form I want to dock to the desktop, similar to the the way the task bar docks to the desktop. I had the following suggestion...

"One thought is that the narrow window is docking itself to the edge of the desktop window, like the Windows taskbar does. I imagine the desktop area would automatically resize to accomodate the docked toolbar..."

The narrow window above refers to an Oracle8 administator toolbar that docks itself to the desktop. Then any window that is set to maximise, shuffles up under the admin toolbar! Neat trick...

Any bright ideas welcome.

This what you want?

Code:

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Declare Function GetClassName Lib "user32" Alias "GetClassNameA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal nMaxCount As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetWindowRect Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, lpRect As RECT) As Long


Type RECT
    Left As Long
    Top As Long
    Right As Long
    Bottom As Long
    End Type
   
    Dim StartMenu As Long
    Dim What As RECT
   


Public Sub BorderToRight(FormName As Form)


    For TempNum = 1 To 999
        TempString$ = Space$(128)
        TempNum2 = GetClassName(TempNum, TempString$, 128)
        TempNum3 = Left$(TempString, TempNum2)
        If LCase(TempNum3) = "shell_traywnd" Then GoTo StartMenuFound
    Next TempNum
StartMenuFound:
    GetWindowRect TempNum, What
    StartMenu = What.Top * 15


    FormName.Move Screen.Width - FormName.Width, 0, FormName.Width, StartMenu
    End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
BorderToRight Me
End Sub

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Thanks Matthew - I added that code into my app. It doesn't do what we hoped but it does move the form to the top of the screen. The form does not dock though...


The only changes I made where to the "what.top * 15" to "what.top".

It definintly has the shell_traywnd fine. I don't know what this part is doing though?

StartMenuFound:
GetWindowRect TempNum, What
StartMenu = What.Top

frmThornChkGDCMin.Move Screen.Width - frmThornChkGDCMin.Width, 0, frmThornChkGDCMin.Width, StartMenu

end sub

Any further pointers would be appreciated.

An example with a reuseable class is avalible here:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...6/appbar14.zip

gwdash, Matthew,

Thanks for everything - The appbar14.zip does what I had in mind and a lot more. Thanks a bunch guys....

Matthew - Your code was probably what I wanted but I am to hung over from the Olympics parties to figure out what the heck to do witrh it!

Cheers,

DrEvil . . .

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