How to hide my apps dialogs on task bar?

[Wayne Diamond]

My program has an icon that sits in the system tray... when I minimise my program, I want it to remove its 'button' from the task bar, and then when it is restored again the button should come back. both a MSDN, POFFS and online search yielded no fruits... in VB its just a matter of one line so im assuming there's just one or two API calls behind it - but which, I'm not sure

CallBack Function DlgProc
ON ERROR RESUME NEXT
   Select Case CbMsg
    CASE %WM_SIZE
       Select Case CBwparam
              Case %SIZE_MINIMIZED
                   'remove our apps button from task bar
              CASE %SIZE_RESTORED
                   'restore our apps button to task bar

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[Eric Pearson]

Check out DIALOG SHOW STATE in the Help File. Using %SW_HIDE will hide the Task Bar button as well as the dialog itself, and %SW_SHOW will bring it back.

-- Eric


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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited March 04, 2001).]

[Stuart McLachlan]

Try "ShowWindow CHNDL, %SW_HIDE"
and "ShowWindow CHNDL, "%SW_SHOW"


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[Lance Edmonds]

DOALOG SHOW encapsulates ShowWindow(), but if you are using DDT, then we recommend that you use the DDT statements where possible to ensure the DDT engine is "synchronized" with the true state of the dialog.

BTW, in the last message above, CHNDL should actually be entered as CBHNDL.

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[Wayne Diamond]

Ahhh geez... I had a feeling it was going to be as simple as that. That works perfectly. Thanks all for making me feel stupid and getting me back to work

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