Windows question

[Martin Baxter]

>Lars Brehmer wrote:
>
>> Greetings all!
>>
>> I have no experience with Windows whatsoever and have what is
>> hopefully a real easy, dopey question:
>>
>> I build a standalone for Windows (the splash screen is the actual
>> standalone, the Main Stack and substacks are rev files) and it works
>> just fine, but there's one little thing I don't get.  In OSX, it's the
>> icon of the standalone that appears in the dock, but in Windows (XP in
>> this case) each of the open stacks, whether visible or not, has a
>> thingy in the task bar thing, so as stacks open and close, the taskbar
>> thingies multiply and disappear.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong here? Or is it always this way in Windows?
>> Is there a way to get just the app in the taskbar and not the
>> individual rev stacks?
>
>Windows programs typically show a task-bar item per "main window" - with
>varying interpretations of what should be considered to be a "main window".
>
>In general Rev shows a task-bar item for each stack.
>However, there are exceptions - for instance, in the IDE, script editor
>windows don't appear in the task-bar - so there must be some control
>over this. (Sorry - I've never looked into it, so I don't know any more
>off-hand - if no-one else chimes in, I'll look around the settings on
>the script editor stacks and see if I can figure out how they avoid
>appearing in the list).

It's because the IDE windows are generally modeless.

Martin Baxter