In this occasion the problem I'm facing is related with the icon that appears in the metro menu in Windows 8, when developing an App. At the beginig, I was able to see the icon when developing the App (pressing F5). However, now I can't see the App Icons in the Metro menu. But when searching the App using the Windows icon + Q, I can see the icon of my app.
I realized out the this star happening when I was changing the default splash screen and icons by a custom ones. I have a red icon for the spalsh screen for scale 100 saying: A mixture of images with and without "scale" or "targetsize" qualifiers exists in this project for the logical name "Assets...." When a mixture exists, files without the qualifier are ignored.
I'm not sure if this is causing that the icon is not appearing.
Does any one have a clue?
Regards!
In Windows 8.1 new installed Application doesn't appear in the start menu automatically. You have to pin them there.
For this got to the metro start menu, swipe down (or click the arrow at the bottom left), search for your app -> select it -> select pin to start in the app bar.
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I have a UI design that I created to mimic the way that apps in Win10 look but in Win7 - 8. I created a Menu that drops down and has several buttons in it. When this drops down it's the height of the app itself. If the app happens to go behind the task bar the menu drop down opens up instead of down. Is there a way to change this behavior so that no matter where the app is located on a screen it will open down even if that means behind the taskbar.
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i have an app that is intended for a pc with a touchscreen display. I have a built in keyboard for the app. Every time i click a textBox windows displays the icon for me to open windows keyboard. How do i disable that from poping up in my app, BUT still let it pop up outside my app?
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I have a kiosk style app, for employees to register gas consumption. and is all made for a tactil screen. When i click either a textBox or a comboBox the icon prompting me to open windows keyboard pops up. I want to stop that from happening since the app already has a keyboard. However, employees can still get access to regular windows, so when they do i want this pop up to happen naturally on the rest of the computer. So, i just want to stop this from happening in my app, and all the solutions i have came across are for windows in generally and not app specific. How to stop this icon from poping up in my app?
This problem happens only on windows 8 inside the Task Manager.
The Windows 8 Task Manager has a grouping function for applications, even if there is only one instance of the application running.
The top line shows the application name with the application icon to the left. If you click on the right pointing triangle to the left of the application icon, you can see however many instances of the application run. The text changes from the application name to that of the caption bar of the main document.
The problem that I have is that the icon, which should be the form icon, which shows nicely, disappears from the document instance. When I first click on the triangle, the icon for the document line shows fine. After several seconds, presumably after the refresh, the icon changes to a generic Windows icon. The text is fine.
What can cause this problem and how do I resolve it? The icon displays fine on the application caption bar of the main form and the application icon is fine as well.
Windows 7 does not have this issue, as it uses a different task manager.
How do I get the state of the Show-Desktop toggle?
Goal:
Show the taskbar when show desktop is toggled and desktop is shown
Hide the taskbar when show desktop is toggled and windows are restore
Problem:
I can toggle show desktop and I can show or hide the taskbar but I cannot find a way to determine the state of the "show desktop" toggle.
I'm working in C# in VS 2010 with .net 2.0 (if it has to have later version .net ok, but I suspect the answer is somewhere in win32 with a pinvoke. Just can't find it)
This app is for a touch screen where getting to a auto-hidden taskbar is nearly impossible. Normally the taskbar is hidden but users would like to get to it when they click show desktop. (i.e. please no non-constructive comments on windows doesn't want you to change the autohide state without user permission)
Semi-Solution that technically meets my project requirements but not the intent of them:
Show the start menu any time show desktop toggles. Of course the start menu disappears when you click anywhere else but... It was shown.
There are several tutorials on how to do this. Just Google
I am changing the icon by doing the following in the Main form:
this.Icon = myIcon;
And this works fine in Windows 7 except when I "pin" the application to the taskbar, this seems to have no effect on the taskbar icon and only affects the top/left of the window icon.
How do I ensure that I can change the application taskbar icon as well in Windows 7 without having to use Windows 7 Icon overlays as that will just be overlaying another graphic on the icon but not changing the main icon?
Pinned app actually creates a windows shortcut. So to do this will have to manipulate a windows shortcut file on disk. Not a good idea as it seems hacky. Decided to use overlays instead.