List of minimized open/active forms/windows displayed in Windows XP v/s windows 7 on right clicking the name of the application on windows taskbar

[mowgli]

Hi NI,

We have observed that the list of open forms/windows displayed in Windows XP (on right clicking the name of the application on the windows taskbar) seems to indicate all open/active windows/forms in the application.

We would like to know how to enable the same functionality in a Windows 7 environment. The best we can currently do is to double click the application name on the windows taskbar to switch between active windows/forms in the application. We would like a menu similar to the windows XP look and feel whlie running on Windows 7 so far as this particular functionality is concerned.

Thanks and Regards,

-Ashish

[mowgli]

Hi NI,

Please find attached the screen shot for one of our projects.

If we right click the taskbar project name we find that all minimized opened forms show up in taskbar right click menu (for e.g. "Unminimize ACU ATP" shows up for an "ACU ATP" window that was minimized)

We would like to know how to get this fucntionality to work on Windows 7. The same look and feel is desired for our project on Win XP and Win 7.

Regards,

-Ashish

[D_Biel · Accepted solution]

The taskbard changed significantly in Windows Vista and 7. You can get some functionality similar to what you described by customizing the taskbar in the Taskbar Properties. Additionally, holding the Shift key while right-clicking will bring up a menu similar to what you show in your screenshot, except it does not display the item name. In Windows 7, the functionality you descibe is typically done by hovering over the icon in the taskbar and then selecting one of the views that appears above the item.

You can use the Windows shellapi to do limited customization of the taskbar, but this API is very difficult to use and I would not recommend this approach.

CVI does provide a method to change the name of the taskbar item (see this KB), but this does not add the name after Restore in the context menu.