flashing taskbar

Hi all!

I have written a little Instant messenger application and I want the
task bar button to flash when a message is recieved - and herein is my
problem - I'm not sure how to make the task bar button flash! Any help
woudl be gratefully revieved.

Thanks

JC

re: flashing taskbar

"JC" <james_crane@btinternet.com> wrote:
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> I want the task bar button to flash[/color]

Use FlashWindowEx, as described here:
http://tinyurl.com/os7k

P.

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re: flashing taskbar

On 26 Sep 2003 07:28:45 -0700, JC <james_crane@btinternet.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi all!
>
> I have written a little Instant messenger application and I want the
> task bar button to flash when a message is recieved - and herein is my
> problem - I'm not sure how to make the task bar button flash! Any help
> woudl be gratefully revieved.
>
> Thanks
>
> JC[/color]

JC,

You can call the FlashWindow or FlashWindowEx API function through the P/Invoke layer in order to do this. The declaration is as follows:

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern bool FlashWindow(IntPtr hWnd, bool bInvert);

Hope this helps.

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re: flashing taskbar

Hi Paul,

I have checked out the posting yuou hightlighted - thankyou. I still
have a problem, I am still quite new to c# and am unsure how to actually
make that code work - e.g. how do I actually call the FlashWindowEx
function?


ALso, what is pfwi?

I appreciate any help you can offer.

Yours

JC

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