Author: Tomas Rutkauskas

How to minimize a secondary-form to the taskbar	

Answer:

You can minimize a secondary-form to the taskbar using the following piece of code:

1   type
2     TForm = class(TForm)
3       ...
4       private
5       { Private declarations }
6       procedure CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); override;
7     end;
8   
9   implementation
10  
11  .....
12  
13  procedure TForm.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams);
14  begin
15    inherited CreateParams(Params);
16    { Set the extended style for iconizing to the taskbar }
17    { See CreateWindowEx }
18    with Params do
19      exStyle := exStyle or WS_EX_APPWINDOW;
20  end;