Re: How to for Smart Minimize

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Thanks Paul

This helped a lot!


Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] schrieb:

You don't really want to hide it if you're trying to match smart minimize.
You want to send it behind the bottom-most window in the stack and set its
size to 0. There might be some way to do this with only managed code, but
using SetWindowPos() is a single-step way (you have to P/Invoke it, of
course).

Paul T.

"Thomas" <thomas@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Alex

Thanks for your reply. You're right that Hide() seems to do the same as
the "X" button. But what I was wondering is:

When I open a Form (lets say Form1) within my Application with .Show()
and then press the "X" button, the Form is listed in the current
running Programms.
On my device, I go to Settings -> Memory -> Running Programms and the
Form "Form1" is visible beside my MainForm.

But when I hide the Form by using this.Hide(), the Form isn't visible
in the List. Have you any idea why this behaviour is diffrent?

Greetings Thomas


Alex Yakhnin schrieb:

The "Smart Minimize" does nothing special. It just sends the program to
the
background. So, if you'd just call the Hide() method on your form it'd do
it.

--
Alex Yakhnin, Device Application Developer MVP
http://blog.opennetcf.org/ayakhnin

"Thomas" <thomas@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello

After some weeks of developing with compact framework, I figured out
that i still do not unterstand whats going on when i press the X of the
form.

I now added a Close button in my application and want it to have the
same behavior as the "X" button of the form. I figured out that neither
Hide() nor Close() have same result as the "X".

Does somebody know how to perform a Smart Minimize of the Form in code?

Thanks!



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