Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: > With the caveat that I haven't actually tried any of this, I was > thinking along these lines: > > Your real stack is modeless, the proxy is toplevel. The proxy is > offscreen, the modeless one looks like the real thing. The user clicks > the (fake) minimize button in your fake titlebar. The button script > hides the stack it's in, and sends an iconify message to the proxy. The > proxy gets iconified and is represented in the taskbar. > > When the user clicks the taskbar, an uniconify message gets sent to the > proxy. The proxy stack script catches this message and makes the real > stack visible again. > > Would that do it?
Yes this works fine. But the (minor) problem arises when the user *doesn't* use the stack's minimize button and instead clicks the stack's icon button in the taskbar. The first click makes the proxy stack active; then the second click actually does the minimizing. So it's not that this arrangement doesn't work at all -- it's just that the first taskbar click doesn't do anything (as far as the user knows) so the minimize behavior appears to be buggy. And check this out: since Vista displays thumbnail representations of open applications above the taskbar, I have to create a snapshot in my proxy stack of the real stack's current screen every time it changes, so that the taskbar thumbnail is accurate. I hate jumping through these hoops. Thanks for your continued suggestions. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution