Question regarding a window shape for a stack in Windows

Jonathan Lynch jonathandlynch at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 23:32:39 EDT 2011


Hi again,

using this script in the preopenstack script, it is working, and allows
minimizing from the taskbar:

   set the windowshape of this stack to 0
   set the windowshape of this stack to 4475
   set the decorations of this stack to "maximize,minimize,close"



On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Jonathan Lynch
<jonathandlynch at gmail.com>wrote:

> actually, hang on.
>
> this is happening after I manually set the decorations to:
>
> maximize,minimize,close
>
> I will do some more experimenting with the preopenstack script.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Jonathan Lynch <jonathandlynch at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I am able to do that.
>>
>> Specifically, if I have the taskbar list all icons side by side, then, if
>> I click on the application, which is running from the 4.0 development
>> environment, it will bring the application to the front. If I click on the
>> application icon in the taskbar again, it will minimize the application
>> window. Clicking on the icon a third time brings it back up.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Jonathan, are you able to minimize the stack from the taskbar?  In my Q&D
>>> limited testing here, minimizing doesn't seem to work unless it's done
>>> from
>>> a script in the stack, and even then, the stack just hides.  But it does
>>> get
>>> listed in the taskbar, which is good.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Scott Rossi
>>> Creative Director
>>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>>>
>>>
>>> Recently, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
>>>
>>> > What I did works for that.
>>> >
>>> > At least, it has so far.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shao Sean <shaosean at wehostmacs.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Perhaps an external that makes use of the SetWindowsHookEx function
>>> can
>>> >> restore the taskbar functionality to stacks with custom shapes..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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