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Topic: «Issue with programs and not applying to certain taskbar entry types » on forum: Beta Testing

Razon
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Joined: 10/30/2009

Posted: 12/03/2009 20:05:08

AWM is not applying to the taskbar entries for the kind of windows that only show this.

This persistent caption feature does not seem the be working right with the following programs(link 0 & 1)(yes I've seen this topic), which constantly sets the caption. Also the icon and caption isn't setting for program(link 0 & 1 & 2) taskbar entries, because it's the type of taskbar entry that AWM doesn't apply to.

Also AWM isn't getting applied to program(link 2) when it starts. Also when it is applied, if it's set to align on startup then there will be an issue with right clicking menus for it (the title and the taskbar entry) for it (also for link 1, file menu too- any kind of menu like that)- where the menu will just flash and disappear. With compatibility mode on, all of the right click menus will get aligned to the middle of the screen or wherever the window is set to do so- which is peculiar. Unchecking block premature appearance doesn't help with this issue, it just aligns the menu after first showing it- need to choose a class for the window to fix this. Also remove taskbar entry doesn't work for it with the obtained class. And last, transparency doesn't work right for link 2.

Link 0 and Link 1 and also Link 2

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OS: Windows XP Home SP2

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Alexander Belyakov
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Posted: 12/07/2009 23:00:40

Razon, thank you for reporting these issues. We'll test those applications to see what can be done.

As for the taskbar entry you've shown here:

Usually, such taskbar buttons are added by applications made in Borland Delphi, or Borland C++ Builder.

Any of those applications has an invibisble window (with class TApplication), and it is this window, which is seen in the taskbar, not the real UI windows.

Unfortunately, there no point in adding any of AWM's functions to the system menu of TApplication window, because applying any of them to this window effectively does nothing. And there's no reasonable/correct way of identifying a real application window from that invisible TApplication (especially, when such application consists of serveral UI windows).

That's why we simply ignore such TApplication windows.

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