I know I can programatically make the taskbar item for a particular window start flashing when something changes, but is there any way I can stop it from flashing either programatically after a certain period of time or at least is there a keyboard shortcur I can give to my users to somehow stop the flashing? ...
My application draws all its own window borders and decorations. It works fine with Windows taskbars that are set to auto-hide, except when my application window is maximized. The taskbar won't "roll up". It will behave normally if I have the application not maximized, even when sized all the way to the bottom of the screen. It even w...
Most applications only have "Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize and Close", however MS SQL offers extra options "Help, Customize view". Along those lines, is it possible to add to the right click menu of an application in the task bar? Note: I'm not referring to an icon in the notification area next to the clock. ...
How would one go about displaying taskbar notifications? I want to write an app that periodically displays a flash card esque notification, the intention is to see if a 5 second or so distraction every hour can help with language learning. Target language is c# ...
When my application opens too many windows the taskbar groups them into one button. Each window has its own icon, but the grouping icon is the default "unknown"-kind icon. How can I set the grouping icon? ...
I've created a DeskBand toolbar and I want to display a button on the toolbar that has the style visual style as a taskbar button. In .NET you can use the VisualStyleRenderer to render the Taskbar BACKGROUND, but there's way to render a button. Are there any Win32 API's I can use to draw the button using Visual Styles rather than emula...
I need to hide a Windows form from the taskbar but I can't use WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW because I need the system menu and min/max buttons on the form's title bar. If I switch the form to a tool window at runtime the form skinning is stuffed up. From searching on the Web I see that VB has a ShowInTaskbar property and I'm wondering if this woul...
In a Java application (JRE 1.5.0_12) on Windows XP, I call a native method: public native int attachImage( ... ); ... which lives in a Visual C++ 6.0 .dll. It displays an application-modal window. Problem is, the application's tray icon doesn't respond to mouseclicks while this window has focus. This is an issue because when this wind...
I can use "FlashWindowEx" to make a window flash in the taskbar, but what can I call to determine if that has been done to a window? Is there a flag that gets set somewhere that I can query? ...
I'm trying to find a way to get the open tasks in C#. I've been searching on google and can only find how to get a list of the processes. I want the only the tasks that would show up on the taskbar. Also, along with that, it would be cool if I could get the process the task is associated with. And if possible get the thumbnail images...
I have written a toolbar that runs on the taskbar. Unfortunately, after it is installed, the user has to enable it manually. Is there a way to tell explorer to open (or close) a given toolbar? I would like for the installer, NSIS, to turn on the toolbar when the installation is complete (I realize that a plugin would be necessary). I...
Is there any way to change the taskbar icon of a browser in windows? I open alot of browser windows, and I like to group similar websites (in tabs) by window. So I was wondering if there was a way to assign a taskbar icon to them so that you can more easily differentiate between them. ...
I have a Windows form application written in C#. I update the title of the form frequently, but there's a substantial lag between the title changing and the title dislayed in the taskbar being updated. What's a clean way to force an update / redraw of the task bar's entry for my program? Failing that, how can I force a redraw of the...
Edit: The question follows the horizontal rule; my own answer precedes it. Based on help from Oscar Reyes, I crafted this solution: import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import javax.swing.JFrame; public class MyApp extends JFrame { public static void main(String [] args) { new MyApp(); } public MyApp() { sup...
I noticed that my app sends icons to the Windows tray with a size of 16x16 pixels--and my Vista PC I've got a doublewide taskbar that appears to show icons at 18x18. The resizing artifacts on my app's icon look awful. How can I ask Windows what size the icons should be? edit: I'm generating the icon dynamically, with a pixel font text...
I would like to place some large items in the XP system tray. (the one next to the clock) By this i mean items that take up more than the standard icon space. I know it can be done because I have seen several weather and time applications with this functionality. For example http://www.respectsoft.com/weather-clock-screenshots.php (se...
The idea is to combine the features of a taksbar on windows xp and 'sidebar' as in windows vista. This is very useful if we dock the taskbar vertically ( left or right aligned ) on the desktop and give it some suitable width. Advantages More number of task bar items can stack vertically on taskbar ( as compared to the default horizo...
Is there a way to call MessageBox.Show that appears in the taskbar? It would probably be best to just create a custom form and display it of course, but being a lazy programmer I want to avoid redoing the default Error and Alert notification icons you get with a good old fashioned MessageBox.Show call. ...
When our app is started programatically (either through custom action in MSI installer or when starting a new instance) in Windows Vista (also happens in Windows 7 Beta) it won't appear in the taskbar and isn't focused. Alt-tabbing to it will make it appear in the taskbar properly and stay there. What causes this? I've seen this in so...
I want to change the settings of my taskbar with a small batch file or java programm or whatever. So I want to know, if there is a registry key containg this information. Does anybody knows, where Windows sets taskbar settings? Edit: No, I don't want to annoy the users with changing taskbar settings on every boot. ...