Questions tagged [windowless]
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Mac application without window
I've little knowledge in developing Mac window based application. When the app starts up, i don't want to show the window at all. I'm placing icon in status bar and on right clicking it will show options and one option is to see the window.
Can some…

Satyam
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Silverlight 4, Mouse Wheel Events and Windowless Mode
I have a Silverlight 4 application that benefits greatly from having native mouse wheel support for a number of controls. The page that hosts the application has a HTML driven drop-down menu that would normally overlay the Silverlight control.
In…

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Way to make a Windowless WPF window draggable without getting InvalidOperationException
I have a borderless WPF main window. I'm trying to make it so that the end user can drag the window.
I've added the following to the Window's constructor:
this.MouseLeftButtonDown += delegate { DragMove(); };
The problem is, I have a dialog box…

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Hiding the process window, why isn't it working?
I have tried several things now to hide the window of a new process (in this case it's just notepad.exe for testing), but it just won't work regardless of what I try.
I have read many posts now all saying the same so why isn't it working for me?
I…

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OpenGL ES2.0 offscreen context for FBO rendering
I would like to do offscreen rendering (in console environment without any WS) with FBOs.
I know that it is necessary to create an OpenGL context, and at least a dummy window for any operation, therefore I did the following initialization:
// Step 1…

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How to do an application without form in C#?
Possible Duplicate:
Writing a Windows system tray application with .NET
Hi,
I am programming an application in .NET and I don't want to put it a windows interface.
I remember some time ago I did it with inheriting from the ApplicationContext…

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"Missing GL version" from glewInit() using EGL?
I just try to run this:
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
EGLDisplay display;
EGLConfig config;
EGLContext context;
EGLint num_config;
display = eglGetDisplay(EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY);
if (display == EGL_NO_DISPLAY)
{
std:: cout << "ERROR: EGL…

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Does Visual Studio WinForms support window-less controls?
Must every control in the Visual Studio WinForms toolbox descend from Control?
Does Visual Studio support window-less controls?
Every control you add to the Toolbox in Visual Studio:
must1 descend from Control, which is a wrapper around a windowed…

Ian Boyd
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Win32 windowless application - wait for program exit
I have a windowless application whose only purpose is to install a 32 bit hook DLL file and wait until the parent program (a 64-bit program) exits. The 64-bit program is written in C#, and the windowless application is written in C++. I originally…

Telanor
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Windowless tray icon application
OK I am a total newbie at WPF but I have to develop what's in the title with wpf but not relying on MVVM.
I have followed this:
WPF Application that only has a tray icon
I found the first answer the one with the hardcodet lib but find it too…

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Delphi: How to use windowless controls?
i know that windowless controls are not magic. A windowless control can have input focus (e.g. Internet Explorer). Input focus is nothing more than drawing either:
a blinking cursor
a dotted line around the perimeter
a slight blue tinge on a…

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Simple "Hello World!" console application crashes when run by windows TaskScheduler (1.0)
I have a batch file which starts multiple instances of simple console application (Hello World!). I work on Windows server 2008 64-bit. I configure it to run in TaskScheduler, at startup, and whether user is logged-in or not. The later configuration…

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Why doesn't Silverlight provide IME support?
In Silverlight (until version 4), if you set the property windowless of the sl plugin to true, you can't get any IME support in a textbox.
Does anyone know why? is it a security concern or something else?

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How do I access a control in a Resource Dictionary from its code behind?
I have a windowless application that only consists of an App.xaml which is filled by a ResourceDictionary. How can I access a control in that Dictionary from its codebehind?

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run OpenGL program on server without window over ssh
I am trying to run a OpenGL program which does not need a window, this program creates a file.
This is done on a debian xfce, so far so good.
Then i try to run the program from another computer using ssh, if the xfce is on with a monitor, I can…

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