For programming questions about the application switcher and launcher on Windows (or other operating systems copying its desktop environment), usually docked to the bottom of the screen. Questions might relate to interacting with and/or modifying the taskbar's behaviors.
Questions tagged [taskbar]
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Android : Floating Clickable Icon over Screen?
There's an Android Application called Smart Taskbar that manages to Pin a small SemiTransparent Icon over the screen...The icon remains visible over ALL the activites (including the home screen). The Icon is Clickable (/Touchable), and it does…
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How do I associate my application with a pinned program on the Windows 7 taskbar?
We have an application, let's call it MyApp. On installation, we create a desktop icon for MyApp, which basically calls MyLauncher.exe /launch MyApp.exe. MyLauncher does some useful stuff (check for updates, etc.), and then starts MyApp.
A user…
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Integrate Qt with Windows 7 taskbar using python?
I'm looking for a way to using some of the Windows 7 task bar features - specifically progressbar and jump lists - in a python application that uses Qt for the UI. The questions I've seen on SO are all 1-2 years old and either say Qt isn't there yet…
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How can I make JOptionPane dialogs show up as a task on the taskbar?
Edit:
The question follows the horizontal rule; my own answer precedes it.
Based on help from Oscar Reyes, I crafted this solution:
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class MyApp extends JFrame {
public static…
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Is there a way to make a console window flash in the task bar programmatically
Basically I made console app that performs some task that takes a few minutes. I'd like to have it flash in the taskbar to let me know when it's done doing its thing.
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Properly maximizing WPF window with WindowStyle=None
There are two problems with WPF windows when the WindowStyle=None option is used.
The window covers the Taskbar when maximized.
Once maximized, the window cannot be dragged down to unmaximize.
How can these problems be corrected?
Preferably…
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How to hide an application from taskbar in Windows 7?
I would like to hide an application from the Windows 7 taskbar.
I want to make something like a toolbar on the edge of the screen which does certain things when the user clicks on it, but I don't want it to show in the taskbar, since its a thing…
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How do I create a toolbar for the Taskbar on Windows?
How do I go about creating my own taskbar toolbar, a la Windows Media Player:
Windows Media Player's Start bar toolbar http://me.monoxide.ws/images/wmp-toolbar.gif
Examples or documentation or even open source software that implements this for just…
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Modifying taskbar icon of my .jar program
I'm trying to change the default java icon that appears in taskbar everytime I run my .jar program. I managed to change it with frame.setIconImage(img); but this makes icon way too small, I want it to be as big as other programs icons and have a…
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How to make full screen mode, without covering the taskbar using :wpf c#
I need to change windows taskbar in my WPF application. For that I set WindowStyle="None", which means to disable the windows taskbar, and make custom taskbar with buttons for restoring, minimizing and closing the application. Now my problem is if…
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Why windows task bar custom task list doesn`t work without pin on windows 10?
The minimal working example with QML JumpList (same behaviour if using QWinJumpList in c++).
import QtQuick 2.3
import QtQuick.Window 2.2
import QtWinExtras 1.0
Window {
visible: true
JumpList {
JumpListCategory {
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Delphi form icons are blurry on Windows 7's taskbar (with MainFormOnTaskbar enabled)
We have a Windows desktop application written in Delphi that works fine on Windows 7, except that the icon of the main form looks blurry in Windows' new taskbar. As long as the application has not been started the icon looks fine (i.e. when it's…
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Combine NotifyIcon and ToolTip
I have been working with NotifyIcon in order to show an icon in the taskbar.
This program has no Windows Form. I perhaps could create one and make it invisible but I was hoping to avoid it. The ToolTip functions attached to NotifyIcon are somewhat…
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Wix - Do Not Remove Pinned Taskbar on Install
During an installation or major upgrade, if a user has pinned the application to their task bar, then after the installation has completed, the task bar shortcut is removed from \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User…
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Java in full screen on Linux - how to cover task bar?
I have a problem to run Java application in full screen mode on "openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64)". I am using Java 1.6.0_26-b03.
I have try to run two examples of full screen application:
Example from Oracle site: Display Mode Test.
JDarkRoom.jar (simple…
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