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Re: How do you toggle the desktop?

#16238
From: bmkiss67
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:15
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Thank you for the explanation unfortunatly we don't do any MS type work, so
I have no idea on how to control or pass any data to any MS type entity such
as explorer.exe.


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3ecbdb66@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "bmkiss67" <bmkiss67@aaahawk.com> wrote in message
> news:3ecbd859$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > I would like to be able to toggle the desktop just
> > like the "Show Desktop" command, the small icon
> > just to the right of the Start button, does.
>
> That particular icon is just a .SCF file that, when clicked, is passed to
> explorer.exe for execution.  The .SCF file is just an .INI file that
> contains command parameters that tells explorer what to do, in this case
to
> toggle the desktop:
>
>     --- Show Desktop.scf ---
>     [Shell]
>     Command=2
>     IconFile=explorer.exe,3
>
>     [Taskbar]
>     Command=ToggleDesktop
>
>
> Gambit
>
>
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