Hide a form's taskbar button without using WS_EX_TOOLWIN

Question

I need to hide a Windows form from the taskbar but I can\'t use WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW because I need the system menu and min/max buttons on the form\'s title bar.

Answer 1

in Delphi XE (2010) this works perfectly: you shoud edit main form,

program prog;  

uses
Forms,
Unit1 in 'Unit1.pas' {Form1};

begin
Application.Initialize;

// this value is set to "true", but you shoud set it "false"
Application.MainFormOnTaskbar := false;

Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1);
Application.Run;
end.

(for this main form search in "modeling view" window)

after this, go to unit1.pas, your main forms unit and "OnShow" event of form1 do:

procedure TForm1.FormShow(Sender: TObject);

begin

ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_HIDE);

end;

this will help, i had the same problem, searched whole net but without resolt