Hide the Main Form in a Delphi 2009 Application

Question

The following code works fine in Delphi 7. However, in Delphi 2009 the form does remain hidden but the button on the taskbar is now appearing.

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Answer 1

You need to set the ShowMainForm and MainFormOnTaskBar properties to False before the form is created.

Open your project source and set MainFormOnTaskBar and ShowMainForm to False, before the form is created.

Application.Initialize;
Application.MainFormOnTaskbar := false;
Application.ShowMainForm := false;
Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1);

Then on your main form add the following code to the FormActivate and FormShow events.

procedure TForm1.FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
begin
 // hide taskbar button
 ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_HIDE);
end;
procedure TForm1.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
begin
 // hide taskbar button
 ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_HIDE);
end;

I have tested with Dephi 2007 and 2009. Additional information is available here.