Disabling the taskbar on HPC (Jornada 720)

[Kzinti]

[Kzinti]

[gamefreaks]

You can create a window with the EX_TOPMOST (or something) flag set. This hides and deactivates the taksbar...(IE: You cant click the buttons...)

[R0B]

If you could figure out how to take controll of the buttons in the top row of a 720, that would be awsume. I played around with that for a little bit, but couldn't get it to work.

[gamefreaks]

Got them on my J680. I suppose using them would be useful...

[motbe]

[Kzinti]

It seems the only safe way to do it is by using WS_EX_TOPMOST at window creation time. The other two methods (the one I suggested and the one with disabling the window) are both unnacceptable: if the game crash or exit without proper cleanup, the taskbar is not usable anymore.

With WS_EX_TOPMOST, the game can crash all it wants and the taskbar still works.

I will investigate hooking the special keys... Thanks for all the feedback!