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2005-04-16 11:19:14 AM
cppbuilder85
If you run the ancient Borland C++ Builder Ver 6 and the Windows Task
manager on your machine, you'll see that when you move your mouse cursor on
a speed button (say Run(F9) button) on your BCB6 IDE and wait until it show
its hint, then you will see a new application appears in your Windows Task
Manager's Application tab.
On the other hand if you run a MS application such as Outlook and move your
mouse on a speed button and wait until it show its hint, then you will
observe that nothing is changed in your Windows Task Manager.
Can you explain why the BCB Ver6 have this strange behaviour?
Please refer to the message "Secrets of BCB Ver6,...Strange, you should see
this..." posted in the borland.public.cppbuilder.ide group for more
information.
Lion Tu Ye
[Team DFBC]
Yet another Disappointed Former Borland Customer.
 

<Lion Tu Ye>wrote in message
VCL does not use standard Windows hints, but rather creates its own
windows for hints. So, because of the way the VCL creates those
windows, the Task Manager thinks that it is another application. It
isn't as you would see if you "end task" on the hint.
HTH
Jonathan
 

What that proves? VCL is not good? BCB is not good?
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"Vladimir Stefanovic" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
enhances the standard Windows hint system.
Jonathan
 

In fact THintWindow has a side effect (IMO): when I
minimize all windows (Win+D), my THintWindow object
is not minimized!
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Jonathan