Taskbar window button icon for full screen window

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By setting a window's parent to the desktop (and resizing), the window will be shown in full screen mode. A parentless window like that has an automatic taskbar button without text and the main application icon. I can add text to the btton by using SetWindowText(), but I cannot change the taskbar button icon.
SetIcon() does not seem to do anything.

Any advice?

Posted 22-Dec-09 3:31am

Gil Rivlis

Updated 22-Dec-09 3:33am

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Rage · Answer 1 · 2010-01-13T05:07:00

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Do you want to add an icon to the window's "button" when minimized in the taskbar ?
Which VS Version are you using ?

Posted 13-Jan-10 5:07am

Rage

Gil Rivlis · Answer 2 · 2010-01-13T05:22:00

>Do you want to add an icon to the window's "button" when minimized in the taskbar ?
>Which VS Version are you using ?

I'd like to add the icon both when not minimized and when minimized. I assume that once I set the icon, it will be the same for both. The problem is the multiple monitors. If I had one monitor, then, obviously, the full screen window will hide the taskbar and I will not need the icon. When more than one screen are involved, the full screen window on the secondary screen has a taskbar button in the main screen. (This applies to my method of making a window full screen. It is always possible that a different method will be better. I've tried to resize the frame beyond the size of the screen, but, because I use multiple monitors, the edge of the frame window leaks over to the other monitor.)

I'm using VS2008.

Thanks,
Gil