How to make my application sparkle?

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Cylix - 03 Mar 2008 07:16 GMT

I am writing a small program to monitor a folder.
Normally, the user will minimize the application on the task bar.

When a new file on the folder, I would like to make the application in
task bar to sparkle.
Just like we minimized a msn conversation window and got a new
message.
Thanks a lot.

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Thorsten Doerfler - 03 Mar 2008 08:30 GMT

Cylix schrieb:

> I am writing a small program to monitor a folder.
> Normally, the user will minimize the application on the task bar.
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> Just like we minimized a msn conversation window and got a new
> message.

P/Invoke FlashWindow/FlashWindowEx

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Cylix - 03 Mar 2008 10:03 GMT

> P/Invoke FlashWindow/FlashWindowEx

I think flashwindow is came from windows API right?
but ...anyone can telll me how to declare flashwindow from WINAPI to
vb.net?

Thanks.

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(O)enone - 03 Mar 2008 10:34 GMT

> I think flashwindow is came from windows API right?
> but ...anyone can telll me how to declare flashwindow from WINAPI to
> vb.net?

http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/FlashWindowEx.html

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 03 Mar 2008 15:57 GMT

"(O)enone" <oenone@nowhere.com> schrieb:

>> I think flashwindow is came from windows API right?
>> but ...anyone can telll me how to declare flashwindow from WINAPI to
>> vb.net?
>
> http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/FlashWindowEx.html

This declarations basically work but they are flawed. 'FlashWindowEx'
returns a Boolean value and there is no need to pass the form object 'ByRef'
in the wrapper method.

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