B4J Question How to prevent MainForm to appear in the taskbar

[Cableguy]

Hi Guys,

I need to prevent my Launcher's MainForm from appearing in the taskbar, How do I do that?
I have given the user a way to exit the app so I would like for the launcher so be as "system" like as possible.

 

[ThRuST]

Found some clues from an earlier posting, maybe there's some hints by reading This
If I find a way to help you I will

 

[Cableguy]

That one was started by me. The main reason for it was I had two modal forms that were appearing in the taskbar...
In this case I want to prevent the main form thus the app in itself, from appearing in the taskbar

 

[Erel]

There is no difference between a modal form or the main form. The icon will be shown in the taskbar unless you set the style to UTILITY.

 

[Cableguy]

But with b4j v4.7 the style "UTILITY" is no longer available, right?

 

[Daestrum]

@Cableguy
I think it was "UNIFIED" style that was removed as default.

 

[Erel]

That's correct. The UNIFIED style has been removed as it was not compatible with many display drivers.

 

[Cableguy]

The problem is, UTILITY style does not suite my needs...

I "just" need to prevent my Undecorated Transparent form from appearing in the taskbar!!!
Since the Utility style allows it, where does it get set within the Utility class or enum?

can I get the same effect using CSS to style my form, keeping its style to UTILITY?

(Remember, this is my MAINFORM)

 

[Erel]

JavaFX doesn't support it: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8091566

 

[Cableguy]

I think i have a "workaround", i Will post After trying it

 

[ThRuST]

I'd like to see a solution to this myself, because it's quite annoying to see the Java form as minimized. It should be optional to have them visible or not by default.
It would be nice if Oracle could implement this feature in an update.

 

[Cableguy]

@ThRuST

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...utility-and-as-transparent.73360/#post-466017