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| pmill |
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I miss the taskbar and wish it didn't autohide so much. There's only a small portion of the time where the taskbar should be hidden and that's when running satnav programs and games, but the rest of the time it should be available.
Someone pointed out that if you run a program from a shortcut in the startmenu, the taskbar minimizes and is still accessible. But if you run a shortcut from the desktop the taskbar disappears and you have to close the program to get back to the taskbar.
I like launching my programs from the desktop, but I also like having the taskbar.
There's a feature in GAPI for HPC's that lets you "Remove Taskbar" when launching GAPI enabled programs, should that feature work with Tahtu taskbar? GAPI programs are about the only ones that shouldn't have the taskbar on them.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:18 pm |
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| Tahtu |
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I remember the same discussion immediately after I published the taskbar: How should PNADesktop.exe know if the taskbar should be hided or not?
Since it works with standard Windows links (*.lnk files) and this links cannot enclose informations about the taskbar hiding a solution with a used defined hiding inside the .lnk files is not possible.
Since I didn't saw a better solution I decided to implement the difference about the desktop and the start menu launching. Indeed this is not a good solution too.
An automatic dedection I wasn't be able to implement, since the limited WinCE does not offer all needed library calls to detect if the launched application wish to get the whole display or not.
So I'm not able to make a sugguestion how somebody else could code this wish. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:16 pm |
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| pmill |
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| Tahtu wrote: | I remember the same discussion immediately after I published the taskbar: How should PNADesktop.exe know if the taskbar should be hided or not?
Since it works with standard Windows links (*.lnk files) and this links cannot enclose informations about the taskbar hiding a solution with a used defined hiding inside the .lnk files is not possible.
Since I didn't saw a better solution I decided to implement the difference about the desktop and the start menu launching. Indeed this is not a good solution too.
An automatic dedection I wasn't be able to implement, since the limited WinCE does not offer all needed library calls to detect if the launched application wish to get the whole display or not.
So I'm not able to make a sugguestion how somebody else could code this wish. |
I think I'm taking a step backwards from all that you worked hard to do in the first place, and i'm sorry about that. But I think it's better now to eliminate the autohide feature. It is my personal preference and it doesn't have to be available to the public, I just need to know what to change in the source code.
Here's what I would like to do:
1. Remove auto hide feature.
2. Taskbar can minimize by pressing windows logo on taskbar. (already does that).
3. Taskbar can be hidden by pressing option on taskbar. (HIDE TASKBAR option already exists).
Bonus: A small icon on right side of clock to hide taskbar. Circle with an x inside maybe.
That's about it I think. How do I do this?  |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:03 pm |
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| Tahtu |
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"SetWindowState" changes the state of a window. I think I used this for the taskbar only.
"WS_HIDDEN" means completle hidden.
"WS_MINIMIZED" means the icon.
... good luck! |
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