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<Lion Tu Ye> wrote in message 
news:42608431$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> If you run the ancient Borland C++ Builder Ver 6 and the Windows 
> Task manager on your machine, you'll see that when you move your 
> mouse cursor on a speed button (say Run(F9) button) on your BCB6 IDE 
> and wait until it show its hint, then you will see a new application 
> appears in your Windows Task Manager's Application tab.
> On the other hand if you run a MS application such as Outlook and 
> move your mouse on a speed button and wait until it show its hint, 
> then you will observe that nothing is changed in your Windows Task 
> Manager.
>
> Can you explain why the BCB Ver6 have this strange behaviour?

I'm only guessing, but I think that this may be reasonably close. The 
VCL does not use standard Windows hints, but rather creates its own 
windows for hints. So, because of the way the VCL creates those 
windows, the Task Manager thinks that it is another application. It 
isn't as you would see if you "end task" on the hint.

HTH

Jonathan