Every form has it's own icon in the taskbar 1

[Nordlund]

Hi there.
Normally, only the project has the icon in the taskbar.
(Only one icon /application)

I want to add a special form in my application, and that form has to have a corresponding icon in the taskbar, is that possible?

//Nordlund

 

[whosrdaddy]

sure, no problem :

override the createparams method to achive this :

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
  protected
    procedure CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); override;
....

procedure TForm1.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams);

begin
 // change window style to have an icon in the taskbar
 // to do this we add WS_EX_APPWINDOW to the window style parameters
 // for more info ,look into MS win32 help reference on msdn
 inherited CreateParams(Params);
 ParentWindow:=GetDesktopWindow; // make sure desktop is owner of this form, if not, taskbar button will not function properly
 Params.ExStyle := WS_EX_APPWINDOW;
end;

Cheers,
Daddy

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[muntz70]

Good read here too...

http://delphi.about.com/od/formsdialogs/l/aa073101b.htm

 

[Nordlund]

THanks, I will look in to that in a moment...

//Nordlund

 

[Nordlund]

...A star for the first solution... Thanks...

//Nordlund