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Engine as Parent window #321809 05/02/10 17:03 05/02/10 17:03
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 564 /www/europe/ germany/index.php TSG_Torsten OP User
TSG_Torsten OP User Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 564 /www/europe/ germany/index.php	Hi all, I've developed a c++ Application which starts an engine-exe. But it would be better if the engine isn't visible as a seperat window on the taskbar. Is there any possible function I could use to set the parent window in order to group the engine window with my application? Regards TSGames www.TSGames.de Bounci Madness - Online Game

Re: Engine as Parent window [Re: TSG_Torsten] #321812 05/02/10 17:37 05/02/10 17:37
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 5,211 Ä°stanbul, Turkey Quad Senior Expert
Quad Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 5,211 Ä°stanbul, Turkey	I believe there is such functions in winapi, you may try bing search on msdn. 3333333333

Re: Engine as Parent window [Re: Quad] #321814 05/02/10 17:43 05/02/10 17:43
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davinski Newbie Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 18	nah use google! GameStudio A7 Extra ultitech - Ultimative Technology

Re: Engine as Parent window [Re: davinski] #321815 05/02/10 17:48 05/02/10 17:48
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Quad Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 5,211 Ä°stanbul, Turkey	alright, here is the c/lite-c/c++ code that will hide the window from taskbar(also from alt+tab) Code: #include <acknex.h> #include <windows.h> #define WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW 0x00000080L void main(){ wait(1); ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_HIDE) ; SetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE) \| WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW); ShowWindow(hWnd, SW_SHOW) ; } obviously this lite-c but you can do this with same method from c++. hWnd is the handle of the Gamestudio window. 3333333333

Re: Engine as Parent window [Re: Quad] #321820 05/02/10 18:11 05/02/10 18:11
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 564 /www/europe/ germany/index.php TSG_Torsten OP User
TSG_Torsten OP User Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 564 /www/europe/ germany/index.php	First, thanks for this very great and working example, quadraxas. But I actually won't hide the window, but group it to my application window on the taskbar. I've got no idea what I've to look for, does this has to do with parent windows or is there a different technology on how to group the taskbar items/windows? Regards TSGames www.TSGames.de Bounci Madness - Online Game

Re: Engine as Parent window [Re: TSG_Torsten] #321914 05/03/10 13:03 05/03/10 13:03
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 2,043 Germany Lukas Programmer
Lukas Programmer Joined: May 2007 Posts: 2,043 Germany	I think grouping in the taskbar is automatically done for multiple instances of the same application. I think there is no way to group them manually, but I might be wrong. Kubetris LBGUI

Re: Engine as Parent window [Re: Lukas] #321916 05/03/10 13:38 05/03/10 13:38
Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 564 /www/europe/ germany/index.php TSG_Torsten OP User
TSG_Torsten OP User Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 564 /www/europe/ germany/index.php	Well, actually I've seen demo-applications which spawn new windows of the same instance (the same process) but have different taskbar groups. But I want to do the inverse thing ^^ (well, this demo was for the ITaskBar3 object introduced in Windows 7, but I'm pretty sure this is already possible with the legacy taskbar). Anyway, I've already tried SetParent. But this wasn't what I've looked for, if I use "SetParent(hWnd,My_Application_Window)" the Engine window is "inside" my application. So that won't work for me. Any other ideas would be great Regards TSGames www.TSGames.de Bounci Madness - Online Game