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Force Modal Form to be Shown in Taskbar

Asked 2012-01-05T16:48:52.530
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According to MS when you show a modal form in VB6 it does not show in the taskbar 'by design'

But is there any way to make a VB6 Modal form to be shown in the taskbar (the ShowInTaskbar property has no effect when it is modal)

In one of our apps we have a modal login form that is the first form to be shown in the application after the splash screen unloads so if the user moves another window over the top you don't know it is loaded.

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You will have to do subclassing, something like this from VBAccelerator.

Disclaimer - adapted from PM2's answer to this question which is probably a duplicate, but we can't tell because the original poster never told us whether their form was modal.

answered 2012-01-05T17:15:13.153

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