Win32::GUI

Dave wrote:
>I'm trying to get a window to not display in the taskbar, and I'm unable 
>to do so without negative side effects. (i.e. the window not properly 
>redrawing, or the window becoming a toolbar-esque window.) Anyone know how 
>I could get around this? I've been using, of course, SetWindowLong with 
>the appropriate constants.

This was discussed some time ago on the list. What we figured out then was 
that creating a window with a -parent => $winParent will make the new 
window a child window. It will stay on top of the parent window and it will 
not be displayed in the task bar.

I'm not sure how to do it without having a window already, but maybe it's 
possible to make it a child of e.g. the desktop hwind or something else. 
Just a thought.


BTW, how did you go about for getting a toolbar-esque window? Because 
that's something I'm doing right now :)  My current solution is to create a 
window like this:

         $hOption{-style} =
                         0x00C00000 |            #WS_CAPTION
                         0x80000000 |            #WS_POPUP
                         0x00800000 |            #WS_BORDER
                         0;
         Win32::GUI::Window->new(%hOption);


/J

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Johan Lindstrom wrote:

> This was discussed some time ago on the list. What we figured out then was
> that creating a window with a -parent => $winParent will make the new
> window a child window. It will stay on top of the parent window and it will
> not be displayed in the task bar.
>
> I'm not sure how to do it without having a window already, but maybe it's
> possible to make it a child of e.g. the desktop hwind or something else.
> Just a thought.

Well, one can make a trash window and use it as a parent for what would
otherwise be your first window.  Then you can discard it, as it has
served its
purpose.  Additional windows you create can use the first window as the
parent.

Perhaps the desktop could be used, if there was a way to get its handle
into a
Win32::GUI::Window object.

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Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Perhaps the desktop could be used, if there was a way to get its handle
> into a Win32::GUI::Window object.

    my $desktop = Win32::GUI::GetDesktopWindow();


cheers,
Aldo

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Yes, yes, that gets a windows handle, but not a Win32::GUI::Window object
containing the handle, which seems to be the only thing -parent will accept.
Attempting to pass $desktop (as defined below) to -parent results in a crash
on my machine.

Aldo Calpini wrote:

> Glenn Linderman wrote:
> > Perhaps the desktop could be used, if there was a way to get its handle
> > into a Win32::GUI::Window object.
>
>     my $desktop = Win32::GUI::GetDesktopWindow();
>
> cheers,
> Aldo
>
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