Placing a form right above the TASKBAR?
Hi All.
I'm trying to make a form popup just above the clock, just above the TASKBAR.
If the taskbar is NOT on the bottom, then i want the form to appear on the bottom of the screen please.
i have ABSOULTLY NO IDEA where to start my research for this...
Any help / links / suggesstions please.
Thank you kindly.
-PK-
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Re: Placing a form right above the TASKBAR?
It might be worth while you checking out the code I have attached here.
This is code for popup messages, that have the following features.
- Clickable Message link
- Add progress bar into message
- Message shows above all other windows
- Change virtually all properties to customise message
- set background pic
- set logo
- close when clicked
- good scrolling
- play sound when displayed
- close button in top right hand corner
- hide message as it's loading
- store deafult messages and show them at any time
- Set parent object of messages, so you can display inside an app/picture box
- plus many many more...
The code contains a full demo and source code.
Very small code, very easy to change.
Just run Test.vpg
Hope this helps. Still developing it, so any suggestions welcome.
Woka
Re: Placing a form right above the TASKBAR?
Im doing a similar grow event form for a chat program I'm making, these methods really help, up until now I had it hard coded to work with 1024x768 only.
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Hi all
Is there a vb.net way around this?
Just be nice to know, that's all.
Thanks.
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brijmohank,
I tried your menu program that you gave as a zipped example. It looks and works great. However, I can't get rid of it now. It runs whenever I start windows. How can I prevent this?
Thanks,
Rev. Michael L. Burns
Re: Placing a form right above the TASKBAR?
da_silvy,
I am trying to make a launch bar similar to the Microsoft Office Bar. I am using your code example given in this thread to position my form above the task bar. It seems to work great. How can I get my form to recognize if the taskbar has changed. For instance, it positions itself now above the taskbar but what if the taskbar is set to autohide? How can I get my form to resize to the new position of the taskbar?
On a unrelated issue, what I am trying to do is make a launchbar on the right of my screen. This works ok and resizes the client area when my bar is visable and resizes when I close my bar. However, I have noticed that everytime I launch and close the launch bar, the actual horizontal width of the client area of my screen gets a little smaller until, if done enough times, I can only see half the screen width above the taskbar although the taskbar is the full width of the screen. How can I prevent this?
On final question, how can I get my launch bar to autohide and resize the client area of the screen? Currently, it is attached to the right of the screen and is an inch wide.
Thanks for any help or advise that you can give.
Michael
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Originally Posted by Rev. Michael L. Burns
brijmohank,
I tried your menu program that you gave as a zipped example. It looks and works great. However, I can't get rid of it now. It runs whenever I start windows. How can I prevent this?
Thanks,
Rev. Michael L. Burns
Well it either has a shortcut in the Start->Startup folder or on the registry...
Re: Placing a form right above the TASKBAR?
Thanks manavo11. Initially I tried the registry but was using the name of the program displayed in the System Tray. When I went back and actually searched on menu.exe I fold the registry entry, deleted it and restarted my computer and all is now well.
Michael
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Could u guys re upload a working example of resizing and placing an external window right above taskbar in the lower right cornder of screen just above clock. I could not download the first few zip files and the last one was giving tones of error!!Thanks
Re: Placing a form right above the TASKBAR?
I just put it into a program of mine by editing it to work with my form .. here is a sample project just using one manual popup ... maybe it will help you .. its stripped down some .. easier to add to existing programs .. the section you edit is the AddPopup on the form1 .. you could add a timer and all that also ..
Rory
Edit . i left some of my program in there LOL ..
anyway i uploaded the changed version ..
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Originally Posted by rory
I just put it into a program of mine by editing it to work with my form .. here is a sample project just using one manual popup ... maybe it will help you .. its stripped down some .. easier to add to existing programs .. the section you edit is the AddPopup on the form1 .. you could add a timer and all that also ..
Rory
Thanks for u reply. i liked the pop idea. I will be using it for my other project so can u tell me what shouldi change in order that it works for my external window knowing its classname and caption?
Furthermore, at this moment i am just intrested in placeing my external window in that position and leaving it like that not bring it down . How i should do that ? My external window might be in the middle of screen with diffrent size , how i should resize and place it above taskbar without brining it down?Thanks
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Well . .. I just made a slight change BTW .. i had a reference to Media Player in there as I was using that in my proggy .. i took it out so you could download the newer one if you like ..
Its actually a popup message .. not an external program ..
uses a form in the project as the pop up ..
Looks like Wokawidget originally developed it .. so he would know the ins and outs more than I :-) But id like to tell him hey its great ...
I think though from reading your other posts .. this might not be the thing for this program of yours .. or it will take some serious editing for it to work with an external program ..
Do you have control over the external program or is it someone elses ..?
Rory
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You may find my project MSM Popup Messages quite handy.
The link is in my sig. This sould have all the code you could want for this.
Woka