Article View: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi
Article #5980Re: Creating an application that resides on the WindowsXP Desktop?
From: Ed Mulroy
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:57
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:57
17 lines
1603 bytes
1603 bytes
So write your editor and when it starts blow it up to full screen. Handle the WM_GETMINMAXINFO message to insure that it is always full screen. Have it periodically save to disk if the information has changed. . Ed > Daniel Mayo wrote in message > news:42af25d3@newsgroups.borland.com... > > Does anyone know a simple way to create an application that would reside > modeless on the windows desktop? > > For instance, I would like to embedd a notepad like client in the windows > desktop (it would always be there even on minimize all commands) so I > could leave notes there, etc. > > Ideas?
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<42af369e@newsgroups.borland.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!news-out.newsgroups.com!propagator2-sterling.newsfeeds.com!in.nntp.be!caladan.landsraad.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mailReferences:
<42af25d3@newsgroups.borland.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,5c57b34923165485 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Ed Mulroy" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <42af25d3@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Creating an application that resides on the WindowsXP Desktop? Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:57:17 -0400 Lines: 19 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.161.27.53 Message-ID: <42af369e@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1118779038 12.161.27.53 (14 Jun 2005 12:57:18 -0700) X-Authenticated-User: edmulroy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!news-out.newsgroups.com!propagator2-sterling.newsfeeds.com!in.nntp.be!caladan.landsraad.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail