Windows without Taskbar item

[noodles1]

Is the extended window style, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW, the only method of creating a window that does not create an item on the Windows TaskBar?

 

[palbano]

ShowWindow( SW_HIDE)

-pete

 

[noodles1]

Pete,

Thanks.

My concern is that this function will hide the window completely. What I require is that the window is visible, but that there is no Taskbar item associated with it.

With repect to creating the the application window with the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW extended style, if the window is minimized (lets not worry about how to restore the window, I can deal with that separately) the minimized window is placed above the Taskbar, similar in fashion to the way a child window behaves when minimized in an MDI application.

 

[palbano]

Noodles1,

SW_HIDE will solve your problem. Create the main window of your application hidden in this fashion. Then the window you want to display is created as a child window of the main (hidden) window.

-pete