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Question
| From: |
George M Patterson |
| Date: |
Monday, July 10, 2000 12:04 PM |
| Subject: |
VB question |
| Question: |
Hello - you helped me out before with a vb question about network
neighbourhoods.
Could you possibly help me again?
Is it possible for a modal form to have a caption visible in the task bar?
Cheers.
george
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I have tried this before and the only way that I can think of is to have a
normal form and then just enable and disable the main form manually as modal
forms cannot go into the taskbar.
Comments
| From: |
snowberry |
| Date: |
Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 07:53:21 |
| Comments: |
I have found a combination of the methods given that will give a result that works, and can be done so that it does not flicker on the screen. Before the form is shown, set something like the following so that the form is not visible to the user:
Me.Height = 0
Me.Width = 0
Me.Left = -10000
Me.Top = -10000
Me.Show vbModal |
The form will need a timer, set with an Interval of 1, and in it you will need:
Timer1.Enabled = False
' For some reason you do have to do this...
Me.Caption = Me.Caption
Me.WindowState = vbMinimized
Me.WindowState = vbNormal
Me.Height = Whatever you want
Me.Width = Whatever you want
Me.Left = Whatever you want
Me.Top = Whatever you want
Me.SetFocus |
Hope this helps someone. |
| From: |
levs |
| Date: |
Monday, November 26, 2007 at 16:22:45 |
| Comments: |
"The second form would have a 0 width and 0 height so it would not be
visible and it would unload itself right after it loaded." It does not
work. |
| From: |
Matt Ryall |
| Date: |
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 01:26:49 |
| Comments: |
The example given by ich breaks the "modal-ness" of the form. Setting Form.Visible to false allows the execution path of the caller to continue (in Sub Main or whatever). |
| From: |
ich |
| Date: |
Tuesday, November 4, 2003 at 16:11:19 |
| Comments: |
Private Sub Form_Activate()
Me.Visible = False
Me.Caption = Me.Caption
Me.Visible = True
End Sub |
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| From: |
David Schofield |
| Date: |
Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at 22:36:45 |
| Comments: |
You can accomplish the same thing much easier by minimizing and restoring the form in the form_activate proc. DIM a variable to hold the current state before minimizing and restore it to the previous state for user friendliness.
DS |
| From: |
Scott |
| Date: |
Friday, August 15, 2003 at 17:08:47 |
| Comments: |
This technique works great! Thanks! |
| From: |
Elliott |
| Date: |
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 18:17:53 |
| Comments: |
I just figured this one out...
The only way to do this is to show something modally over top of your modal form and change the caption just be for you do it. This worked in VB6 for me.
Example:
-----modMain.bas---------------------
sub main()
...
frmMain.Show vbModal
...
End Sub
--------frmMain.frm------------------
Private Sub Command1_Click()
frmMain.Caption = frmMain.Caption
MsgBox "Your Form will now have a TaskBar Button!"
End Sub |
-------End Form----------
There is a clever way of doing this automatically by using a second form instead of a message box and placing the code in the frmMain Activate event.
The second form would have a 0 width and 0 height so it would not be visible and it would unload itself right after it loaded. |
Martin Allen 1999 - 2009. Last updated
Thursday 21 May 2009 09:06:08 PM +0100.
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