form on task bar in CE

I have an app for pocketpc and am trying to get it to run on Windows
CE.NET... Everything works ok except for the times where I have 2 forms
loaded.. 1 is shown with .ShowDialog()... the problem is that the user can
tap the first form in the task bar on CE where they could not see that it
was loaded on PocketPC.

How can i hide this from the user... Idealy there would be a form property
to not show in the task bar but that does not seem to be available in the
CompactFramework.

Thanks in advance.

--

Tommy

DanArdelean
Fri Jul 09 17:36:01 CDT 2004

If you set the Form.Visible=false you will not see the form in taskbar. After you close the other window set it back to true and use BringToFront (using OpenNETCF api)

"Tommy" wrote:

> I have an app for pocketpc and am trying to get it to run on Windows
> CE.NET... Everything works ok except for the times where I have 2 forms
> loaded.. 1 is shown with .ShowDialog()... the problem is that the user can
> tap the first form in the task bar on CE where they could not see that it
> was loaded on PocketPC.
>
> How can i hide this from the user... Idealy there would be a form property
> to not show in the task bar but that does not seem to be available in the
> CompactFramework.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
>
> Tommy
>
>
>

Tommy
Sat Jul 10 09:40:42 CDT 2004

Thanks.. I did try that but here is about 1/2 of a second that you can see
the ce desktop between forms showing.

"Dan Ardelean" <DanArdelean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:20A5253F-F6A1-44CE-9A89-1F0DFCB5EFFE@microsoft.com...
> If you set the Form.Visible=false you will not see the form in taskbar.
After you close the other window set it back to true and use BringToFront
(using OpenNETCF api)
>
> "Tommy" wrote:
>
> > I have an app for pocketpc and am trying to get it to run on Windows
> > CE.NET... Everything works ok except for the times where I have 2 forms
> > loaded.. 1 is shown with .ShowDialog()... the problem is that the user
can
> > tap the first form in the task bar on CE where they could not see that
it
> > was loaded on PocketPC.
> >
> > How can i hide this from the user... Idealy there would be a form
property
> > to not show in the task bar but that does not seem to be available in
the
> > CompactFramework.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Tommy
> >
> >
> >