Minimising Without A Caption
*** I have found the cause of the problem - I have an invisible menu so that I can have pop-up menus in the form - this makes the border/caption bar visible unless the caption = "" - if anyone knows how to change this, it would be much appreciated. Thanks ***
Here goes my first post here!
I have made a full screen application (without caption bar) that covers the taskbar - this is all very nice until someone wants to minimise the form. I have made a command box with frmForm.windowstate = vbMinimized, which works fine, except there is naturally no caption in the taskbar (i.e. I just get the application icon with a blank space).
To solve this, the line before the windowstate line, I have added frmForm.caption = "xxxxxxx'.
However, when I come back to the form, there is a horrible caption bar! I have attempted to find some solutions by seeing if adding frmForm.caption = "" to a random command box (would capture events if it works), but that shifts the whole screen up, so the taskbar and some space above that is visible.
As the form is maximised, I can't then go and change the form's size.
Does anyone know how to make the caption appear in the taskbar, and to return to a fully maximised screen with no caption bar?
Thanks in advance,
Ed
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