On minimise

[Jay1b]

Is there a way to catch the user minimising the form. Similar to the way below which catches the user trying to close the form.

 

   Private Sub frmOption_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) 
Handles MyBase.Closing

 

I found that i can do this by cheating, ie. using the form.resize event and then use an if statement to check on the windowstate, but was wondering if theres a proper way of doing it?

 

Thanks.

Edited September 17, 2003 by Jay1b

[Jay1b]

In addition to that :

- I can still alt+tab to the form, which i dont want.

- The icon for alt+tab isnt the one that i set for the program

- When minimised i get an annoying minimised bit over the start

button, just above my taskbar. Which needless to say i dont want.

 

Can anybody advise of a way to stop those 3 points above please?

[Mehyar]

Well i will try to look it up for you but i guess you should go for using API's, search for API's and detecting minimize button and other stuff..

[PlausiblyDamp]

[edit]removed due to posting guidelines - Orbity[/edit] Edited September 18, 2003 by John

[Jay1b]

I am not trying to prevent the alt+tab from working - i just dont want my app to appear in it when its minimized to the statusbar. Just the same way you cant alt+tab into the volume control in windows when its minimized or an anti-virus.

[Jay1b]

PD I think the link is more aimed at completely stopping it from working. Thanks anyway.

[PlausiblyDamp]

My mistake - I misred the question. Hopefully to make up for that

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)

       If m.Msg = 5 Then    'WM_SIZE
           
           If m.WParam.ToInt32 = 1 Then    'SIZE_MINIMIZED
               Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal
           End If
       Else
           MyBase.WndProc(m)
       End If
   End Sub

 

also if you set the formBorderStyle to one of the toolwindow options it doesn't appear in the alt+tab list.

[Jay1b]

I tried setting the formborderstyle to the toolwindow options, and it doesnt appear in the alt+tab. But it also doesnt have a minimise icon...doh! :)

 

Does the code need to go anywhere in particular? I tried pasting it in, and it just stopped me from minimising the form. So i changed the normal to minimise and it didnt do anything :(

 

Thanks for giving it a shot though.

[PlausiblyDamp]

If the form is displaying as an icon in the System Tray just hide the form instead of the Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal and un hide when they restore it from your context menu.

[Jay1b]

That does work, but i found that the comm connection in the form didnt work. I will try it again 2mrw, just incase there was another piece of code interferring with it.