I want to be able to keep just one notifyIcon without others crowding up my taskbar when I 'Snooze' my form. The design is such that it should not be able to be closed (outside of closing down the process) so the controlbar has been removed. It can only be hidden by pressing the provided button at which point it minimizes to the taskbar, but for some reason when I test it a few times I end up with a taskbar full of icons that don't disappear until I hover over them.
I'd appreciate any advice
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I am writing a small application to automatically rotate through open windows on Windows 7/8.1/10 PC's. I have written the majority of the code and it is working well except I cannot figure out or find out what key presses to use to cycle through open applications.
I have tried SendKeys.Send("%{Tab 2}"); but this seems to only actually press the TAB button once as it keeps switching between the same two windows (even though more are open).
I have tried SendKeys.Send("%+{Esc}"); but this doesn't maximize windows that are minimized to the taskbar. It will effectively cycle through each open windows and bring them into focus (as evident by watching the white semi-transparent overlay on the taskbar item) but it won't show them on screen - I'm assuming because they started minimized. Only the maximized ones will show on screen when it's their turn.
Can anyone please assist? I'm sure it's a simple fix of maximizing the window it cycles to but I'm unsure how to implement this.
I haven't included the code of the entire application as I don't think it is relevant. If you do require it please let me know and I will add it.
Many thanks.
I am in a need of hiding the console window, which I quickly resolved by P/Invoking ShowWindow. However, the call hides the console window as well as the taskbar button of the console window. I need the taskbar button to remain visible. I am not, however, looking for a way to minimize the console window. Clicking the taskbar button show not do anything. I tried to use SetWinEventHook and hide the window every time it was activated, but to no avail, as the window calling this function must run message loop in order to receive the events (and my console window didn't, no matter if I set OutOfContext or InContext flag).
Is there a way I can make my console application run, show itself in taskbar, then hide itself (or never show itself in a first place) and just keep running with no window but taskbar button visible?
The normal way to get a button on the taskbar is to create a visible unowned top-level window. So that's no use to you. One possible alternative is to use ITaskbarList::AddTab to add a button. I don't know whether or not this will do anything for an invisible window. Either way you'd need to run a message loop for your window. Even if you could do this the net result would not feel very nice for the user.
I'm working on some C# application to help myself learn C# a bit. I've been searching for a solution, but I can't seem to find one.
When my application minimizes, it shows a notifyicon in the system tray. When I right click it, a context menu pops up on the mouse. However, for each level of the menu and submenu, a blank window pops up on the taskbar until I exit that submenu or the contextmenu.
I don't know why, and I'd like to. I'd also like to know how to prevent that from happening.
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Also, in Visual C# Studio 2010, when debugging, is there a way to determine exactly which form/part of the code I've focused on, so that I could click one of those windows to see what exactly it is?
How are you showing the ContextMenu? I suspect you are calling ContextMenu/ContextMenuStrip.Show(x,y) directly. That will cause it to show in the taskbar.
Instead, assign your ContextMenu/ContextMenuStrip to the ContextMenu/ContextMenuStrip property of your NotifyIcon rather than manually showing it in the mouse click handler. If it is used as part of ContextMenu/ContextMenuStrip property, it won't show in the taskbar.
I have a program I want to be able to handle all three states:
Not showing in taskbar, acting just as a widget like the Windows sound, network programs etc
Showing in taskbar - but not Topmost. The window would still show the notification area icon, and should still behave in the same way as #1, but also show the window in the taskbar.
Showing in taskbar with topmost. The window should behave the same as #2, but now the window will show topmost. Note: it should still be capable of being minimised, in the same way that clicking on a taskbar icon minimises a program.
These are my criteria, and I have been working on having them all working nicely together, but I can't seem to get the last few tweaks ironed out. #1 is fine - I have sorted that out easily enough. #2 and #3 cause more issues.
My first question is, how does Windows handle the user clicking on a taskbar icon to get it to minimise/switch back to normal? As I'd prefer to emulate that with #2 and #3.
For #1 I currently hide the window simply by setting Window.Visibility to Visibility.Hidden. And to show the window, call Show() and then Activate().
Like I said, for #2 and #3, I'd like to copy what Windows does when the user clicks on the taskbar icon. Can I do that? Or would I have to find another way to do this?
1- this is called thumbnail buttons
You can check http://elegantcode.com/2010/12/17/wpf-adding-thumbnail-buttons-to-windows-7-task-bar/ OR http://shareourideas.com/2010/12/19/windows-7-taskbar-thumbnail-buttons-in-wpf/ OR http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff699128.aspx
2- there is property called TopMost in the Window class.
3- for the taskbar icon
you can use this library it is easy to use and powerful http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22876/WPF-Taskbar-Notifier-A-WPF-Taskbar-Notification-Wi
4- to minimize and maximize you can simply use
this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
* that is all the info you need to create your application as you want, if you face any problems read the articles well if the problem still there find where is the problem exactly and ask again.
hope this help...
We have a C# application which contains both modal and non-modal windows. It is possible for a user to have several non-modal windows open and open a modal window from one of these.
If the user switches to another application and then switches back to ours by clicking one of the non-modal windows (other than the one which opened the modal window) in the Task Bar, the non-modal window becomes activated but does not accept input because the modal window is open, but is behind other windows.
How can we ensure that no matter which of our windows the user switches back to, the one which is modal is the one which is actually activated? This is the behaviour exhibited by Microsoft Outlook, for example.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Its certainly possible, but is really annoying to maintain. I regularly work on an application which mixes modal and non-modal windows. This is my strategy (which isn't 100% full-proof)
Set the modal windows TOPMOST when
possible.
When certain actions are
detected (like pressing windows-d button),
you have to manually set the window
back to topmost. I dont know why the windows go to the back, but the behavior is not consistent between windows XP, vista, 2003, etc.
Its really annoying maintaining the code that rearranges the windows. I would urge you to try to not mix modal and non-modal windows.
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I forgot to mention that i use WTL and alot of native win32 functions. I also try to create windows which have parent / child relationship so that keyboard and mouse messages get REFLECTED as much as possible to the child windows.