[RBASE-L] - RHide

[KarenTellef]

My clients have never liked the fact that, under 6.5++,
that they cannot minimize the main menu form that I design.
Other Windows apps run in smaller windows, so the main menu
always shows in the background.  Very unprofessional.  Yet
when I used 'RHIDE', they didn't see any indication on the
task bar that RBase was running so they wind up opening up
multiple versions of the app.   I know alot of people use
RHIDE -- this doesn't bother your clients?

I'm confused by the behavior I'm seeing in 7.0.  I have an icon
that runs the rbg7.exe program, and the "start in" directory
points to my database directory where it will automatically run
my rbase.dat file:
  conn oakfores
  rhide
  edit using mainmenu
  rshow
  exit
Minimizing the MainMenu form puts an RBase icon on the task bar
(nice) and puts a form icon in the 'desktop' area.  In XP it also
puts a little RBase icon picture at the far right area of my task
bar where startup processes are usually shown.  If I have another
app maximized on this screen (like this email editor) and I click
on the RBase icon on the task bar (the big one), it seems to
totally disappear, looking like I had just closed RBase.  And
indeed if I bring up the Task Manager I do not see RBase running
as an application.     Then I remembered that little RBase picture
at the far right.  Double-clicking on that picture brings the RBase
icon back to  my task bar.  Is this the behavior you all are
getting?

I have a client chomping on the bit to upgrade to 7.0 but one of
his main reasons is hoping the RHIDE would behave better.  He wants
to go to any workstation and glance at the task bar to see if they
have RBase running.  I would have to tell him that he needs to also
look over to the far right to see if there's a picture there.  And I
don't know how it works with Win98....

Karen