Q: SplashScreen component question

Hi there!

Who knows how to prevent the SplashScreen component from appearing on the taskbar?
Who knows how to prevent any other child windows (e.g. child dialogs) from appearing on the taskbar?

I don’t know if JUCE has built in stuff for doing this - I’ve never found it if so, but you may want to take a look at:

in particular, if you call SetWindowLongPtr() with its GWL_EXSTYLE parameter set to WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW you’ll switch your window to being a tool window (the quote below is from the MSDN page that details the different extended window types).

(see:
Technical documentation | Microsoft Learn ).

You can use the componentPeer class to get an HWND if memory serves.

Check out the ComponentPeer::windowAppearsOnTaskbar flag, too…

Thanks guys. Will definitely look through these :slight_smile: