I am new to WinForms and am currently developing a simple application. I am not too sure if it is possible, but I would like to display the Form's text value (or some text value) in the taskbar when the application is minimized, rather than the icon?
You can set the text of your application by:
this.Text = "Text that you want to display";
paste the above line of code in your Form's constructor just below the InitializeComponent() method.
The answer is Rohit Vyas's. But due to your comment, you're looking for:
Right-click on taskbar -> Properties -> Taskbar buttons: Never
Combine.
Title usually appears in the taskbar of Win xp and many windows
it can be set like this in win forms
This.Text ="Some Text";
But in Win 7 it will always give you the icon unless you change the properties of windows.
This is not possible without going into COM/Interop stuff and even then I would not advise it. Why not use a text icon instead, or you could look at the NotfyIcon Class.
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I am developing a Windows Form Application. I want to Align the Text to Right of Title Bar of Form. I set RightToLeft property to Yes, it worked in design time but didn't work in run time.
How can I do it? I don't want to set RightToleftLayout to True.
I think you don't have a function or something of visual studio who can lead you to do this.
The title bar of winforms is a native application of Windows, so it's not a good idea to move things on it.
But if you really want to do that, or you really need to, you can do something like this:
this.Text = " " + this.Text;
And modify any way you want.
I am trying to create a popup but when it is open it is still possible to use the tab key to switch the focus to an element in the background (e.g. to a button and use space to press is). The only way I found until now is to check on every lostFocus event (which also fires for every element contained in the Border element) and check if the focus is now in a element inside the Border. If not I manually set the focus.
Is there a nicer way to keep the focus within the Border (or a Grid,...)
I'm working on a Windows 8 App.
Do you mean that using a Modal Dialog with Form.ShowDialog(Owner) still allows you to focus the parent components with Tab?
Can you give a sample of your code call?
Form2 form = new Form2(); //Make an instantiation of your Form
form.ShowDialog(); //ShowDialog()!!! NOT form.Show()!!! Or anything else :/
A few ideas:
Set Enabled to False on the background visual tree, though that might change the way things look if you still want to show them partly
Set IsHitTestVisible to False to disable pointer input
Use RenderTargetBitmap.Render() if targeting Windows 8.1 to render the content of the background to an image and simply replace all that visual tree with an image of it
I was wondering if anyone can help me with this rather baffling situation. I have a WPF form myForm which I am displaying modally in a WinForm application (without using an ElementHost). Everything works fine if I use the default WindowStyle and it is shown in the taskbar. However now I don't want the form to show in the taskbar or contain the minimize button, therefore I have done the following:
MyForm myForm = new MyForm();
myForm.ShowInTaskbar = false;
myForm.WindowStyle = System.Windows.WindowStyle.ToolWindow;
myForm.WindowStartupLocation =System.Windows.WindowStartupLocation.CenterOwner;
myForm.ShowDialog();
Now, the wpf form displays as expected modally and without the minimize button. If I now select the "parent" winform application in the taskbar, the wpf form disappears and there doesn't seem to be any way of returning to it! I have read this which is similar but not the same (pure WPF application), so I can understand why the main app does not appear in the ALT+TAB menu, but can anyone tell me how I can return to the wpf form?
Thanks in advance.
The use of WindowsInteropHelper allows you to wrap a hosted WPF-form using a Winforms-form and set its parent as a Winforms control, which prevents the WPF form from disappearing (as also pointed out by dowhilefor and Hans Passant)
E.g.:
// Use the interop helper for the specified wpf window hosted by the win32 owner
WindowInteropHelper wih = new WindowInteropHelper(wpfForm);
wih.Owner = this.someWin32FormsControl.Handle;
This is not related to Winforms or WPF, this is the way Windows functions. The only solution that I think you have is to wire up your modality; that is intercept the Activated event on your Winforms form and if your WPF tool window is visible, bring that window forward and give it focus.
I am developing an application in C#. I have a Main Form where I have some buttons that give the user the possibility to start a new form into the Main Form.
When there are more of this kind of forms opened and the user choose to minimize one, it goes to back behind all opened forms. So if the user would want to open again that form he must close/minimise all forms.(for beeing able to see the minimized one)
How can I manage the minimised form location so it could be visible after it is minimised? I tried without any result stuff like that: bringToFront, Activate, Focus, etc.
My Main Form contains the buttons and a panel, so the forms are opening in the panel bellow the buttons.
why don't you go for MDI win-form ? I think they fit really well in what you are trying to achieve
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973874.aspx
Finally I did managed myself to solve the problem. It was so simple.
For the forms that opens in the panel child I removed
formName.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
and I set the formName.Height = panelContainer-25; So now the little form minimized is visible.
I know this is late post but might be useful for someone like me.
Try this this was working for me to set minimized window location and size as well
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/d6014e48-2adb-4096-8bea-94c2f3b1c47c/how-to-change-the-location-of-a-minimized-mdichild-form?forum=winforms
Windows Explorer in Windows 7, and maybe Vista too (can't rememmber), does not have a title in the window. but does have a title (some text) in the taskbar.
Is this possible to reproduce in C# (wpf or winforms)? either through the framework or introp.
I want to have a window that says "Options" in the taskbar but the window itself doesn't have a title.
MSDN has a nice article called Custom Window Frame Using DWM which discusses the things you can do with the window frame using the DWM of Vista and Windows 7. In particular, the Removing the Standard Frame section should be relevant for your case.
look at http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2008/09/08/custom-window-chrome-in-wpf.aspx for the section titled "Vista Explorer – Removing redundant information from the title bar"
Simply add the following attribute to the Windows element in your .xaml file
WindowStyle="None"
Side notes:
Task Manager can have a title bar or not have a title bar, depending on what mode you have it in; double click on the margin to toggle the mode. Also note, the quickest note to bring up Task Manager is Ctrl+Shift+Esc. Also check out the BorderThickness and WindowsState attributes of the Window element.
Credit to the Particle Effects Example in WPF MSDN docs.
Have you noticed a Property of the WPF Window:
ShowInTaskbar:
Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the window has a task bar button. This is a dependency property.
I think this may be helpful. You can set WindowStyle Property to "None" with the ShowInTaskbar Property set to "True".