May be I didn't place my question clearly, how can I have frame window caption text differ to taskbar's caption text? It looks like SetWindowText will synchronize 2 text.
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I would like to have different title bar text and task bar text, is this possible? If it is, how?
Thanks in advance.
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something like this:
hWnd = CreateWindow(szWindowClass
CW_USEDEFAULT, 0, CW_USEDEFAULT, 0, NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
hWnd2=CreateWindow(szWindo
CW_USEDEFAULT, 0, CW_USEDEFAULT, 0, hWnd, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
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by: itsmeandnobodyelsePosted on 2007-06-26 at 09:05:09ID: 19365167
For title bar it is a simple SetWindowText for the dialog or frame window, e. g. if using MFC and a CDialog derived class, it is
SetWindowText("My other title");
in either handler function, e. g. in CMyDialog::OnInitDialog.
For the taskbar it is more difficult cause there maybe are different taskbars (or none), vertically or horicontally, owned by your app or owned by the desktop, and ...
Regards, Alex