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Show taskbar button when using WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW

Is it possible to display the taskbar button when WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW flag is used in CreateWindowEx?
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How create a screenlocker similar to Windows UAC?

I'm trying to create a screen locker, similar to Windows UAC, like shown in this tutorial. I am having difficulty creating the background maximized window, with reduced light, and a screenshot of the desktop. Here is all the code I have tried so…
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How to create a Microsoft Windows Child window using JNA

I have spent some time trying to create a child window of an existing window by using the following piece of code on JNA (Java Native Access) but I guess it is pretty much the same with every other programming language trying to use Windows…
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Failed CreateWindowEx. How do I get my window (with the button) to actually pop up for once?

I can only assume most of this works because I can't get past the CreateWindowEx check. If someone would double check all of my fun button code that would be great too. #include #include //I was told I needed this line but I…
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WinAPI FindWindow

I am building a win32 application in visual studio 2012. I have 4 disabled buttons created with the following code: HWND hWndButton=CreateWindowEx(NULL, L"BUTTON", L"APP1", …
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Displaying Int Variable in LPCSTR CreateWindowEx function

So i am making a basic tic tac toe game as my first program in win32 (just for fun to learn more, no school assignment or anything). I have most of the UI done and the basic gameplay such as clicking squares and placing x's or o's appropriately. I…
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Successful build with createWindowEx, window still won't appear

I'm trying to learn some windows and directX programming and I was messing around trying some different things. When suddently my the windows stopped appearing, even tho it was a successful build. I figured I must have messed something up and I…
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Applying Windows theme to custom control with WS_BORDER style

I have a custom control created using CreateWindowEx with the WS_BORDER style. Everything works fine apart from the border appearing in a different colour to other controls in the dialog box. The border in my control is black, the other controls…
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Where is CreateWindowEx()?

I'm trying to understand how winapi works. I just started on writing my first few apps. Now I am curious about the function "CreateWindowEx()" I wish to know what is written inside this function, but all I can find are the arguments for calling it…
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CreateWindowsEx() failing with Breakpoint triggered

I've got an issue with opening an OpenGL window from my application. I am using a 64bit console application, and from within that console I want to open another window for OpenGL to draw into. The call fails at CreateWindowEx(), and fails with…
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Cannot create window (CreateWindowEx) with existing child class

I have a parent window and a few child windows attached to this. With SpyXX I can see the children all have a certain style class, lets say ChildWindowClass. When I create the window with the name of this particular class, CreateWindowEx returns a…
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How to create a window that behaves like taskbar?

I want to ask how to create a window that behaves like taskbar (shell_traywnd)? In a windows app called Enable Viacam (camera mouse for disabled people) I saw that the app creates a taskbar-like window on the top of the screen (see the image below)…
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Why does uninitialised return value cause Invalid Window Handle err in CreateWindowEx?

Edit- Added code to do with m_hWndClient and the WndProc that were not originally included. In an attempt to be brief I had incorrectly assumed it was unrelated. After the following is run HWND m_hWndFrame; HWND m_hWndClient; // added in…
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