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Re: how turn off task bar

• Posted by Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET> Jan 21, 2000
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: how turn off task bar


> Kat,
>
> That does sound like a better way, if it would work, although I haven't
the
> foggiest idea how to do so :)  , and Brian & Dave's suggestions worked ok
> for me, in case I didn't make that clear; I just thought I'd mention the
> caveats I noticed in case anyone else tried to use them in an Internet
app.

Yeas, i saw that, but the thing is, clicking on any app collapses the
taskbar, once the taskbar loses focus it drops down off the desktop,, that
includes internet apps. If i have an Eu app running a windoze window and a
dos window, clicking on either drops the taskbar. If the app already has
focus, the taskbar drops on it's own when the mouse leaves it.

> But clicking on my desktop doesn't collapse my taskbar !?

Do you have "Hide Taskbar" enabled? Naturally, with windoze, it's in the
Start menu, under Settings.

> Dan
> (clicking here, clicking there, clicking everywhere)
>
> Kat mused:
>
>
> >Has anyone considered telling windoze to hide the taskbar with a win_msg?
> >Naturally, i don't know if that setting can be changed without rebooting,
> >but since clicking on the desktop makes the taskbar collapse, i'd guess
> >there is some msg to tell it to collapse once that's enabled.
> >
> >Kat,
> >just musing.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
> >To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> >Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:49 PM
> >Subject: Re: how turn off task bar
> >
> >
> >> Thanks Brian & David,
> >>
> >> Some interesting things about both ideas for covering up the task bar:
> >>
> >> 1.  Brian used the "Normal" parameter in WinMain, & because I already
had
> >> "Maximize" there in my code, I left it like that; mistake, it HAS to be
> >> "Normal" to work;
> >>
> >> 2.  If I run it while connected to Internet, the window won't stay big;
> it
> >> starts out big, but then the screen flickers with other window's stuff
&
> >the
> >> task bar comes back (not a problem for me, since mine isn't an Internet
> >app,
> >> but could be a problem for those that are);
> >>
> >> 3.  If the window IS resized, RESTORING it DOESN'T re-coverup the task
> bar
> >> (I'll probably use Brian's suggestion & use WS_POPUP to eliminate the
> >> buttons that would allow that, since it also denies manual resizing;
> gotta
> >> remember to provide way to CLOSE it, with buttons gone!)
> >>
> >> Dan Moyer
> >>
> >> David wrote:
> >>
> >> >Brian wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>-- use the WinAPI to get the screen resolution in pixels
> >> >>constant screenCX = c_func(xGetSystemMetrics,{SM_CXSCREEN})
> >> >>constant screenCY = c_func(xGetSystemMetrics,{SM_CYSCREEN})
> >> >
> >> >You can also use:
> >> >
> >> >   screenSize = getExtent( Screen )
> >> >
> >> >keep in mind that the user can resize the screen while an application
is
> >> >running.
> >> >
> >> >-- David Cuny
> >>
>