Remove the icon from the taskbar?

Go to "Project>Options>Application" on the Delphi menu.  Enter a space for the Application Title and create a blank icon (completely transparent) and assign it to the application icon.  This is admittedly a hack but it does produce a comletely blank taskbar icon.

Heath

I don't think I worded it quite right, I don't want to see the Taskbar button created at all.

Do this:

ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_HIDE);

Cheers,

Raymond.

Oh...... Then do it rwilson's way.  That should do it.

No, sorry didn't work, the Extension is a DLL loaded by Outlook, the form has to be shown as a modal form.

Thanks anyway

How do you create your form? ..show us how you initiate the windowed controls and which parameters you are carrying with it.

regards,
Williams

MyForm:
  BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]
  BorderStyle = bsSingle
  Position = poScreenCenter
  ShowHint = True

Application.CreateForm(TMyForm, MyForm);
MyForm.ShowModal;

Create a "dummy" main form. This form will NEVER be shown so make
it some small, empty box or whatever.
Do the following:

1) Create your application.
2) Add TWO forms, the first is your DUMMY main window, the second (and
more) will be the dialogs you want.
3) Change your DPR (application source), by adding the following lines
just before the "Application.Run" line:

program Project1;

uses
  Forms,
  Windows,
  Unit1 in 'Unit1.pas' {Form1},
  Unit2 in 'Unit2.pas' {Form2};

{$R *.RES}

begin
  Application.Initialize;
  Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1);
  Application.CreateForm(TForm2, Form2);
{ add these next two lines}
  Application.ShowMainForm:=false;
  ShowWindow(Application.Handle,SW_HIDE);
{}
  Application.Run;
end.

- this will hide the mainform (actually, it will prevent it from ever
appearing - i.e. no flicker) and hides the app too.

Cheers,

Raymond.

Actually you can write

  ShowWindow(Application.Handle,SW_HIDE);

Before you initialize the application object, else you will be able to track a glitch of a button on the taskbar, but else I support wilsons example.

Regards,
Williams

JasonC,

Does this do the trick?

Cheers,

Raymond.

No, it must have something to do with the DLL being loaded by Microsoft Outlook. The only way I can work around the problem is to turn the border style to bsToolWindow. Which isn't the best as I liked to see the icon's in the title bar.

Hmmm. You could try to override the TForm1.CreateParams function and in this function do this:

  Params.Style:=Params.Style (and (not WS_CHILD)) or WS_POPUP;
  Params.WndParent:=OutlookMainWindowHandle;

Perhaps this helps. Please try it...

Regards, Madshi.

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
 MyParams : TCreateParams;

begin
Form1.CreateParams(MyParams);
MyParams.Style := MyParams.Style + (not WS_CHILD) or WS_POPUP;
MyParams.WndParent := FindWindow('Outlook.Application',nil);
Form1.CreateParams(MyParams);
end;

What is wrong with this code? Have I got in the wrong place?

Write this line

MyParams.Style := MyParams.Style + (not WS_CHILD) or WS_POPUP;

like this

MyParams.Style := MyParams.Style and (not WS_CHILD) or WS_POPUP;

Raymond.

Sorry Guys, it still shows on the taskbar.

JasonC

I think what you need to do is use GetWindowLong, SetWindowLong etc like so...

        ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_HIDE);
        SetWindowLong(Application.Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE,
        GetWindowLong(Application.Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE) and not WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW);

Later
BoRiS

        ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_SHOW );

Hmmm. I meant it this way:

type TForm1 = class(TForm)
  ...
  public
    { Public-Deklarationen }
    procedure CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); override;
  end;

procedure TForm1.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams);
begin
  Params.Style:=(Params.Style and (not WS_CHILD)) or WS_POPUP;  // I'm not sure if these two lines have to be in fron of the inherited or behind of it...  :-)
  Params.WndParent:=OutlooksMainWindowsHandle;
  inherited;
  Params.Style:=(Params.Style and (not WS_CHILD)) or WS_POPUP;
  Params.WndParent:=OutlooksMainWindowsHandle;
end;

Regards, Madshi.

No, Sorry it still shows in the taskbar, maybe this is a problem with Outlook.

Hmm. Perhaps. I don't think so, but perhaps. However, I've no more ideas... Sorry...  :-(

Hey

Try either

      SetWindowLong(Application.Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW);
or
     SetWindowLong(Application.Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE, not WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW);

on the FormCreate

Still doesn't work.

ExtendedStyle := GetWindowLong(Application.Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE);
SetWindowLong(Application.Handle, GWL_EXSTYLE, ExtendedStyle OR TOOLWINDOW AND NOT WS_EX_APPWINDOW);

Sorry this didn't work either all though I had to remove the TOOLWINDOW part because delphi didn't know what this was.

Thanks

Jason: I think he meant WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW

Raymond.

Yeah, sorry, I worked that out after I sent the comment, anyway, same problem, it shows on the taskbar still.

Thanks

Hi Jason, if you want, you can send your whole project to "madshi@gmx.net". Then I'll look at it. But please tell me what I need to do to make Outlook load this dll.

Regards, Madshi.