Removing taskbar icon for a swing application.

Dan True · **Removing taskbar icon for a swing application. -** 01-07-2009, 07:15 AM

Hello.

How do I make a JFrame dissappear from the taskbar icon? I still wan't the window to be visible, but I don't want an icon to show in the taskbar on my windows box.

The goal of this is to create an application like the windows vista "bar" in the left side of the desktop. An application that is always open on the desktop, can't be closed or minimized and has no taskbar icon filling up space down there.
I have attained all this except to remove the taskbar icon.

If someone has a solution, please help me

- Dan

gdboling · 01-12-2009, 04:48 PM

Unless something has changed that I have missed you'll need your top level window to be a subclass of Window rather than Frame. So you could use JWindow which shouldn't register the same way with the OS as JFrame does.

The down side is that you will also lose your frame decorations so no title bar, min/max/close buttons.

Dan True · 01-13-2009, 08:29 AM

I've removed them anyway so that is no problem

thanks a lot!