I read the system tray post and it was useful, but im also trying to get my program to no show itself in the taskbar. The program has to appear to be "discrete" so that the user does not accidentally close it or anything like that.
Can anyone provide any info on this? i know its possible.
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build app as system service
Kuphryn
To hide it from the taskbar (the bar usually along the bottom of the screen), you simply hide your window. Unless you really do mean the list of processes, like in the Task Manager.
ShowWindow( hMainWindow, SW_HIDE );
Last edited by veecee; 05-09-2006 at 12:47 PM.
Umm, what i mean is that the window should still be visible on the screen and interactable but there shouldnt be a task button visible. And having this run as a service is not an option due to the restrictions my boss gave me :P
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I see what you mean. Check out this doc on msdn...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...asp?frame=true
The info you want is at the "Managing Taskbar Buttons" section of it. But here's a snippet of it:
"To prevent the window button from being placed on the taskbar, create the unowned window with the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW extended style. As an alternative, you can create a hidden window and make this hidden window the owner of your visible window."
