Ignore "Show Desktop"

[arsmakman]

Hey everybody,

I'm making an application that sort-of works like a desktop widget.

My widget should stay visible when a user triggers "Show Desktop" (it's what happens when WinKey+D is pressed).

How do I do this?

Thanks for your help,
Alexander.

[Neophyte|NL]

using a timer?? that is what i do most of time.

If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then


or you can remove the controlbox an set the topmost property to true

[keystone_paul]

There's no need to use a timer, you can put your trap in the form's sizechanged event :

    Private Sub Form1_SizeChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.SizeChanged

        If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then
            Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal
        End If

    End Sub

Its not an ideal solution though as you will get a flicker as the form is minimized and then restored.

[keystone_paul]

Although with a little experimenting it turns out that neither of them seem to work properly in the case of Win+D - it seems that this does something more than minimising the form - it appears to make it invisible as well.

[arsmakman]

That's exactly my problem... It seems like no events are triggered for my program when the "Show Desktop"-command is executed.

[keystone_paul]

Having had a quick google around, there's some code using APIs to prevent this happening in this article on MSDN. I haven't tried it myself but it may work.

[Neophyte|NL]

thats weird.

when i try the option to set topmost and no border it works fine here....