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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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
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.
Put the following in the form's Load event. Is thatwhat you want?
Me.Move 0, 0
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Marty
No, I want the form to be docked... like the task bar.
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
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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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 THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!!
[This message has been edited by Compwiz (edited 11-11-1999).]
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 :-))
Happy Birthday!
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).]
YES U R GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS m8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!