Vista application thumbnail

Question

By design, the toolbar application thumbnail on Vista does not update when an application is minimized, since the minimized window itself is not redrawing. For a monitoring application I have, it would be useful to update the application thumbnail while the application remains minimized. I am using Delphi 2009. Can anyone suggest a good workaround for this?

HMcG

Answer 1

That's an interesting one I guess it is possible in some way with the windows API, i'm not on a vista machine at the moment but I think Windows Media Player still shows the video playing when minimized.

I suppose a hack would be to override the minimize button and move the form off screen, then detect the form becoming active again and moving it back to the old location. This would mean the form is out of view but not minimized.