hide the status bar of window at runtime

yeetesh · January 7th, 2005, 03:57 AM

can we hide the status bar of window at runtime with vb 6.0
anyone one got code for that!

Vadivel · January 7th, 2005, 04:51 AM

I guess window.statusbar.visible=false would do that. If I remember it right .. i guess it would work only in Netscape.

Ugly way of doing it :)
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Why not open a new window by using window.open(....) there you can set the statusbar=0 .. and then close the existing window?

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yeetesh · January 7th, 2005, 05:51 AM

hi vadivel thanx for reply but i need to do it through a vb 6 application are there any references to be made

BrianWren · January 7th, 2005, 01:48 PM

Could you please show the ends of sentences with periods?

Are you talking about the status bar of a VB6 form? Or ...?
What action should hide the status bar? Just opening the app?

More detail would be helpful (especially so if you don't just string all your words together in one stream...).

yeetesh · January 8th, 2005, 01:55 AM

hi BrianWren
In My app i have used a status bar to appear on my MDI form .Now I want to Hide the TaskBar of the Sysytem ,from my application .I know it can be done through API but Which API should i use .

BrianWren · January 10th, 2005, 02:38 PM

Code:

Public Const SW_HIDE = 0
Public Const SW_SHOW = 5
Public Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" Alias "ShowWindow" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long
    . . .

    Dim x as Long

    x = ShowWindow(Me.hWnd, SW_HIDE)

(I think this might actually hide the whole window, though... Try it with a timer to run the command with SW_Show, so that you don't lose control of the app if it does hide it altogether...)