B4J Question How to prevent a modal form to appear in the taskbar?

[Cableguy]

Hi guys,

I thought that, a Modal form, since it blocks current code, that it would not show in the taskbar, as if it was a no-modal form...
How can I prevent the modal-form from showing in the task bar?

 

[Daestrum]

If you had a modal form without a close button and your codes goes wonky, how would the user close it, at least if it's in the taskbar they can right click close it.

 

[Cableguy]

I do provide a way to close the modal form, so I only need to prevent it from showing in the task bar

 

[Erel]

Set its style to UTILITY.

 

[Cableguy]

Thats a problem since I wish to use style transparent! Any other way?

 

[Erel]

No.

 

[jmon]

Did you set "MainForm.SetOwner()"?

Public Sub Initialize(Owner As Form)
    MainForm.Initialize("MainForm", 200, 200)
    MainForm.SetOwner(Owner)
    MainForm.BackColor = fx.Colors.Transparent
    MainForm.SetFormStyle("TRANSPARENT")
    MainForm.RootPane.Style = $"-fx-background-color:red;-fx-background-radius:48px;"$
    MainForm.RootPane.MouseCursor = fx.Cursors.HAND

    Dim btn As Button
    btn.Initialize("btn")
    btn.Text = $"Close modal form"$
    MainForm.RootPane.AddNode(btn, 25, 25, -1, -1)

    MainForm.ShowAndWait  
End Sub

in the example that I provide it works with a transparent window, and doesn't show up in the taskbar.

I also provided the code to make the window draggable.