Comments by wcb2@cornell.edu

wcb2@cornell.edu 29-May-13 18:50pm View

It is a mdi form icon. This is the icon that windows displays on the taskbar when the app is running. When I say it, "works just fine". I mean just that. I can change the icon that windows displays on the taskbar at runtime. Yes, they are distinctly different icon files. The icon is changed when the user changes accounts via:

Me.Icon = New System.Drawing.Icon(Application.StartupPath & "\Images\" & myIconFileNames(2%))

wcb2@cornell.edu 29-May-13 16:43pm View

If what I am asking about is impossible, please explain why it works just fine if I start the application by running the EXE directly. The app does exactly what I want and the icon changes at runtime in the taskbar! It only becomes a problem after creating a shortcut to the EXE.

wcb2@cornell.edu 29-May-13 16:37pm View

You have not provided a solution. Rather you are suggesting alternatives. Therefore I would not consider your response a "solution".

At this point I disagree that it is impossible. So I will continue trying to figure it out. Thanks.

wcb2@cornell.edu 29-May-13 16:19pm View

Why would it work fine when there is no shortcut targeting the EXE? It only becomes a problem after creating a shortcut for the EXE.

wcb2@cornell.edu 29-May-13 16:15pm View

What I am trying to do works just fine when there is no shortcut to the EXE. As soon as a shortcut is created targeting the EXE, the taskbar icon stops updating at runtime. I would rather not get into a philosophical debate about why I should not try to do this. Instead, I would just like to know if anyone has done this successfully. And if so how. Thanks!

wcb2@cornell.edu 29-May-13 16:04pm View

The app I am building allows the user to switch "accounts" at runtime. When the account is switched the icon that is displayed in the taskbar icon needs to change to give the user a visual indication (on the taskbar) of which account is selected in the running app.

wcb2@cornell.edu 24-May-13 16:50pm View

I should also add that this is for an in house application and all 20 or so users will be on windows 7. So all the concerns about multiple platform compatibility are really not concerns for me. This is for an order management application where there are multiple user accounts in which orders can occur. So, the users will have multiple instances of the app running for each account and I need to visually distinguish which instances is for which account.

It would be ideal if each window had a big fat title bar with a color and some text indicating the account. If I go borderless, I lose some built in behaviours and introduce a whole bunch of other issues that need to be dealt with in code. So, this is why I want keep the border and just draw the indicator graphics. All I need to do is figure out how to keep Windows 7 from drawing over the graphics after overriding the NC messages.

I realize its a boring topic, but instead of suggesting that go in another direction I would be very grateful if someone would consider the underlying question: How to stop WIndows 7 from drawing over the NC graphics after they are created.

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