Re: How to hide the menu bar at the bottom of the screen

On 28 Mar 2006 14:07:15 -0800, zhang_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm puzzled about the System Tray. Isn't it part of the Task Bar,
which is at the top of the screen for Pocket PCs?
It seems that the Task bar is on top of the screen and system tray is
on bottom of the screen. I may be wrong.

This conversation made me realize that I've never looked closely; I
assumed the system tray stayed with the Task Bar when the Task Bar
moved to the top. But I just looked at least a bit closer and think
the functions of the system tray are split between the Task Bar (at
top of screen) and menu bar (application and/or system?) at the
bottom. The clock and some icons (WiFi, volume) are in the Task Bar.
But some icons (Blue Tooth Manager) are in the bar at the bottom.
Sigh.



Is it really a system menu bar? I know that the menus for my
applications show up at the bottom of the screen.

I use hwnd = FindWindow(_T("menu_worker"), NULL) and ShowWindow(hwnd,
SW_HIDE) to do the trick.

ShowWindow is, indeed, effective. I don't think I've used it for the
menu bar, but I definitely use it for the Task Bar (HHTaskBar), SIP
(SipWndClass), and SIP button (MS_SIPBUTTON). None of this is
"proper", but the "proper" methods just don't work well for some
purposes.



So it seems there is menu bar in the system.

I wasn't questioning whether it is a menu bar. I was questioning
whether it is a system, rather than application, menu bar. I guess
it's a bit of both.



Thanks

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