My own system tray / taskbar.

Hello everyone. I'm about to create my own
Virtual Opearting System which is a clone
for an opearting system, but virtually.
I have some questions for you guys.

1. How do you create your own taskbar with programs,
and show the current screenshot from it as showen
in this video, 1:24.

2. How do I make my own Windows Explorer? So I can browse
all the files in it, and more.

3. How do I make a Task Manager for the applications I
got pened in the manual taskbar in the opearting system? Thanks!

Thanks.

Anyone...? :confused:

Come on.. Is it that hard?
Oh and..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5qjS...eature=related here, How did he
make the taskbar menu lik this?

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do. Do you want it to run on top of windows or to be a complete OS? IF you want the Complete OS, then you need to start with a lower level language than VB. If you just want a forms app that looks like a different OS, you could do that, but you are going to have to draw your controls yourself. You may be able to find some controls that exists that you can repurpose, but in the end a control is just something drawn on the screen that reacts when a user interacts with in different ways.

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Originally Posted by Negative0

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do. Do you want it to run on top of windows or to be a complete OS? IF you want the Complete OS, then you need to start with a lower level language than VB. If you just want a forms app that looks like a different OS, you could do that, but you are going to have to draw your controls yourself. You may be able to find some controls that exists that you can repurpose, but in the end a control is just something drawn on the screen that reacts when a user interacts with in different ways.

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Alright. I'll explain now. The conpect of this is to be a virtual
opearting system. Which means, It requies .NET to run, and it's just
for fun I assume. I want to make a taskbar just like in the windows
you are running now, which will contain every program (or a form..)
I will open. For example, I run notepad.exe, It will show up in the
task bar, and then I can right clcik the item (icon) and close it, or
what ever.

Ok, sounds like you want to make a program that lists visible processes and displays them similar to the taskbar in Windows. Process.GetProcesses() will get all your processes. Whether they're visible or not is a different question, so you'll have to do some filtering.

The graphical display is just that, a graphical display. You'll have to tell the computer how to draw it; regardless if it looks like the current taskbar or not, since there isn't a taskbar control, you'll have to forge it by hand using OnDraw()

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Originally Posted by Jenner

Ok, sounds like you want to make a program that lists visible processes and displays them similar to the taskbar in Windows. Process.GetProcesses() will get all your processes. Whether they're visible or not is a different question, so you'll have to do some filtering.

The graphical display is just that, a graphical display. You'll have to tell the computer how to draw it; regardless if it looks like the current taskbar or not, since there isn't a taskbar control, you'll have to forge it by hand using OnDraw()

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Ok I decided I only want to do the processes only for the forms I have in my current applications. The forms I made. Is that possible to list them on a taskbar? THanks.

You can use a statusStrip for your taskbar.
For your evplorer you can use a split control with a treeview on one side and a listview on the other.

I can use a status bar, but how will I make for each application
I open to show it up on the status strip?

Add to the items collection for each app. I believe you can display buttons in the status bar.

Uh I recently started.. mind giving a hand? >_

I don't mind giving you a hand, but you must put in some effort. I get crabby when people say do this for me, do that for me when they haven't even tried first.

Collections have an Add method, that is how you add things:

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Status.Items.Add()

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I'm glad you started, but to be a programmer, you need to learn to read help files and type code. THEN if you tried to get it to work and if fails AND you can't figure out why ask, we'll help.

Of course. I'm abit experienced.. coded for 3 years, but
from my exeprience - not guides.