Turn off the taskbar

[hog]

Is it possible to turn off, hide the taskbar during runtime? I want my picture to take up the entire screen but cant find out where to turn it off?

 

Thnx

[rot13]

It is possible to take up the entire screen with a form... All you have to do is set FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyles.None, and WindowState = WindowStates.Maximized...

 

I assume your wanting a form with a picture to take up the entire screen?

 

This is the easiest way to do it, but people can push their windows logo button and the start menu will pop up and mess up your app and stuff like that... so if that's a problem, then I'm sure theres an API to do something like your wanting...

[hog]

Hi, setting the for to maximized still shows the taskbar at the bottom.

 

I am trying to replicate the WindowsXP slide show program which will cycle through all the photos in a folder full screen, no taskbar. If the user chooses to press the Windows key to display the taskbar then that is OK.

 

I just want to hide the taskbar until the uses chooses to show it or reduce my app to normal size.

[Shurikn]

Hi, setting the for to maximized still shows the taskbar at the bottom.

 

I am trying to replicate the WindowsXP slide show program which will cycle through all the photos in a folder full screen, no taskbar. If the user chooses to press the Windows key to display the taskbar then that is OK.

 

I just want to hide the taskbar until the uses chooses to show it or reduce my app to normal size.

 

set your form size to the resolution of the screen (while having borderstyle=none)

[rot13]

Hi, setting the for to maximized still shows the taskbar at the bottom.

 

I am trying to replicate the WindowsXP slide show program which will cycle through all the photos in a folder full screen, no taskbar. If the user chooses to press the Windows key to display the taskbar then that is OK.

 

I just want to hide the taskbar until the uses chooses to show it or reduce my app to normal size.

 

You have to set FormBorderStyle to FormBorderStyles.None, along with Maximized... that fills it full screen for me... no taskbar

[Wile]

You can also set the TopMost property of a form to true. It ensures the form will be displayed over the taskbar and any other window (except other windows that are also 'topmost', like the taskmanager)

[Machaira]

If you want to hide the taskbar this will do it:

 

   Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As IntPtr

   Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" Alias "ShowWindow" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal cmdShow As Boolean) As Boolean
   Private Const SW_HIDE = 0
   Private Const SW_SHOW = 1

   Private hTaskBar As IntPtr

   Public Sub Main()

       hTaskBar = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", "")
       ShowWindow(hTaskBar, SW_HIDE)


       ShowWindow(hTaskBar, SW_SHOW)

   End Sub