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Hide app from the Window Taskbar
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From
11/10/2006 00:24:17
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01160697
Message ID:
01161097
Views:
20
>>>>screen=off
>>>>
>>>>ın config.fpw?
>>>
>>>I already done that one to hide the application(no UI at all).
>>>
>>>It's only in the Windows Taskbar that the application is seen now.
>>
>>Steve,
>>I do that since VFP5 (and maybe since VFP3). Screen=off and no window to show then nothing in taskbar. Or if you have a form which is the problem then set form's:
>>Caption: none
>>ControlBox: false
>>Visible:false
>>
>>Cetin
>
>I checked a few things:
>
>When running the application and does have to get info from the IMDB.com, the taskbar is not seen at that point. So, screen=off seem to work.
>
>It's only seen when it's exiting the app in the taskbar for a .2 seconds. This could be launch for another full screen application(third party) in a batch mode and could display the taskbar for every movie it want to create a .MIS.

Look for the .ShowInTaskbar property if you have any forms that may show in desktop. If you are running a foreign utility, you may run it using API_APPRUN class (from late Ed Rauh, available here in downloads), it has an option to run it hidden. I'm using that a lot.

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