Subdivide screen 2

[fordtran]

I wish to run a very narrow reminders program on the right hand side of my screen in such a way that other programs (or windows) that are opened subsequently must not show over (cover)my reminders window. Even if my reminders window is not active or does not have the focus it should show fully.
I suppose I will have to subdivide the screen or have some routine that makes the subsequent windows smaller.
Can somebody help
Thanks

fordtran

 

[miguelisboa]

try a google on: allways on top

 

[Golom]

Set these in a module

Public Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, _
ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, _
ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long

Public Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Public Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
Public Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2

And then in the Form_Activate event

Call SetWindowPos(Me.hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE Or SWP_NOMOVE)

Documentation for SetWindowPos is here.

 

[strongm]

There is a special type of window (very poorly documented) that does this sort of thing - like the Office fast start window for example - a dockable toolbar for the desktop. I am nowwhere near my development machines or notes or anything, so can't remember the techinial term off the top of my head to advise for a Google.

Suffice to say that it is reasonably easy to implement

 

[fordtran]

Thanks also strongm. Your solution is more like the one I want as the previousa option covers part of the window underneath. If you can perhaps look for some further hints I will appreciate.
Thanks


fordtran

 

[strongm]

I´m back from vacation tomorrow, so I´ll have alook

 

[strongm]

What you want to look up are System Appbars - the main API call that supports this is SHAppBarMessage

 

[tsdragon]

Another useful tidbit to add to my archive. Thanks again, strongm!

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