Simple, but not exactly intuitive (btw, I use the second method)..
From Peter Below :
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If you want to have a separate taskbar button for each secondary window you
have two options:
1. override the CreateParams method of each secondary form and add the
WS_EX_APPWINDOW style:
procedure TForm2.CreateParams(Var params: TCreateParams);
begin
inherited CreateParams( params );
params.ExStyle := params.ExStyle or WS_EX_APPWINDOW;
end;
If you click on a secondary forms taskbar button while another app is
active this will still bring all the applications forms to front. If you do
not want that there is option
2. reparent the secondary forms to the desktop
procedure TForm2.CreateParams(Var params: TCreateParams);
begin
inherited CreateParams( params );
params.ExStyle := params.ExStyle or WS_EX_APPWINDOW;
params.WndParent := GetDesktopwindow;
end;
Note that this can cause some problems with modal forms shown from
secondary forms. If the user switches away from the app while a modal form
is up and then back to the form that showed it the modal form may hide
beneath the form. It is possible to deal with this by making sure the modal
form is parented to the form that showed it (using params.WndParent as
above) but this is not possible with the standard dialogs from the Dialogs
unit and exceptions, which need more effort to get them to work right
(basically handling Application.OnActivate, looking for modal forms
parented to Application via GetLastActivepopup and bringing them to the top
of the Z-order via SetWindowPos).
Peter Below (TeamB)
At 15:04 24/09/2001 +1200, you wrote:
>Hi Im sure this is a really simple question but I just cant remember...
>
>How do you set a new form (non modal) to have its own entry on the taskbar?
>
>TIA
>
>Robert Martin
>Software Engineer
>Wild Software Ltd
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