Re: OLE component showing in taskbar

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From: David Knaack
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00

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Marc Konings wrote in message <358248fc.52428197@crwingate>...
>Hi there,
>
>I've written a simple OLE component using delphi 3. But whenever I
instanciate
>the component from another application, the component keeps showing a
seperate
>button in the taskbar. I hate this! Is there a way of disabling this
behaviour
>of Delphi OLE components?


I'm not sure exactly what you mean by component, but perhaps
you mean OLE server?

If so, you can either write the OLE server so that it does not use
a main form (rarely do my OLE servers need main forms), or you
can just set Application.ShowMainForm to false.

DK

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From: "David Knaack" <dknaack@spam.me.not.easen.net>
Subject: Re: OLE component showing in taskbar
Date: 1998/06/18
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