Taskbar

[jnichols]

I know this is probably a crazy question by anyways here go's. Is there anyway to put a taskbar within a MDIParent form?

[Pirate]

I wonder , why would you think of something like this ?

[robymix]

with proper thinking you can create on if you so desire

[jnichols]

it was just a thought to organize open windows in my application but i think thats a little far fetched thanks though.

[mindloop]

i managed creating a mdi taskbar by using a toolbar and adding and removing buttons programatically.
i used radiobuttons (with style = pushbutton). I used a custom toolbar control but the default toolbar wolud do just fine i think.
Also during my quest for the perfect looking taskbar i also stopped a little looking at the tabcontrol (i resized it so that it only showed the tabs and not the pages.
anyway the whole thing needs some code written.

[CyberHawke]

Another way you could do this is with a panel control which could dock on any edge you wish, and then draw your buttons using GDI+ and capture a click event on the panel when your mouse is over one of the drawn buttons.
I am currently working on somthing like this for one of my own creations, I'll be happy to share the results with you.

[RichardAtherton]

God all the answers sounded so difficult, did the same thing but just created it as a an MDI cild within the parent container in it's own form