removing a window from the taskbar

Omar · 13-12-1999 2:36am #1

quoted from MSDN link below

"To prevent the window button from being placed on the taskbar, create the unowned window with the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW extended style. As an alternative, you can create a hidden window and make this hidden window the owner of your visible window. "

I tried this on my app but it didnt work because im using a dialog, not an actual window. I didnt want to do it the "alternative" way so i delved deeper into MSDN

Now get yer head around this!!

MSDN says ITaskbarList is declared in shlobj.h, yet its not in mine!!!
therefore the following code wont compile.

ITaskbarList *TaskbarList=NULL;

HRESULT v = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_TaskbarList, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_HANDLER ,
					IID_ITaskbarList, &TaskBarList);

if (TaskbarList-&gt;HrInit() == NOERROR)
		TaskbarList-&gt;DeleteTab(GetSafeHwnd());

Does anyone have ITaskBarList declared anywhere on their system?!?!?!
This baffles me.

mk:@MSITStore

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kayos · 13-12-1999 5:38pm

Ok did a bit of poking around on this not very big into C++ ATM but this is what I found.
I too couldn't find this interface anywhere on my system. But when I used that handy little tool oleview I found it under interfaces with a guid of {56FDF342-FD6D-11D0-958A-006097C9A090} if that helps.
Also in MSDN it says this
When to Implement

You do not implement ITaskbarList; it is implemented by the shell.

and that you need Version 4.71 of shell32.dll
Hope this is of some help.

Kayos
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removing a window from the taskbar

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