Guest surface9 Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 I have selected "always on top" and "auto hide" for my taskbar (which normally appears on the bottom for me). I then run a slide show which allows me to display the cursor during the slide show, and, I can move the mouse around, BUT, when I move the movue to the bottom, the task bar DOES NOT APPEAR. It remains hidden. When I go through the very same steps in windows 98se, the task bar will appear during the slide show if, and only if, I move the cursor to the bottom. How do I get windows 2000 (sp4) to accomodate the "always on top" aspect of the taskbar under "auto hide" while a slide show is in progress and I move the cursor to the bottom area where the task bar is? I need to be able to see the task bar WITHOUT DISTRUBING THE SLIDE SHOW, click on one of the icons, and then move the cursor away from the bottom area so that the task bar will dissappear again and the slide show continued without disruption. I can do this in windows 98se, so I am looking for whatever switch I need to tick to make windows2000 behave the same way. Thanks, Littleberry
Guest PA20Pilot Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Re: Task Bar "always on top": NOT! Hi, You might try a workaround if you don't find a better answer. Run your slide show in a window dragged to almost full screen size and see if your taskbar works any better for you. I know some of those mini movies that run full screen in Powerpoint kill the mouse action so the keyboard comes into play. ---==X={}=X==--- Jim Self AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository. http://avanimation.avsupport.com Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans. http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm Experimental Aircraft Association #140897 EAA Technical Counselor #4562
Guest surface9 Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Re: Task Bar "always on top": NOT! On Oct 30, 10:24 pm, PA20Pilot <PA20Pi...@faa.gov> wrote: > Hi, > > You might try a workaround if you don't find a better answer. Run your > slide show in a window dragged to almost full screen size and see if > your taskbar works any better for you. I know some of those mini movies > that run full screen in Powerpoint kill the mouse action so the keyboard > comes into play. > > ---==X={}=X==--- > > Jim Self > > AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository.http://avanimation.avsupport.com > > Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans.http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm > > Experimental Aircraft Association #140897 > EAA Technical Counselor #4562 The slide show I am using is "ThumbsPlus", and it ONLY runs in full screen. What gets me is that it works so beautifully in Windows 98se, and I just can't understand how this hiccup got into windows 2000 without someone noticing it - The programming behind thumbsplus is the very same for both systems (win98se and win2k), so, it must mean that windows 2000 responds to ThumbsPlus's system calls in a different way so that it overrides the "always on top" selection of the task bar wherease in windows 98se the system gives thumbsplus a fullscreen but without overriding the task bars "always on top" attribute. How come microsof didn't catch this a long time ago? I am hoping there is a switch somewhere (maybe hidden), that will let me enjoy the task bar's attribute on win2k as it is on win98se. I haven't tried this with XP yet, I wonder how it will work there....
Guest PA20Pilot Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 Re: Task Bar "always on top": NOT! Hi again, .......Full screen only....... That's too bad. .......How come microsof didn't catch this a long time ago? They may have. There's no two computers the same anywhere, and I doubt Microsoft has checked every software installation combination there is, so....... .......I haven't tried this with XP yet, I wonder how it will work there.... Just a guess, but I'd think about as wonderfully as it does in 2000. ---==X={}=X==--- Jim Self AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository. http://avanimation.avsupport.com Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans. http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm Experimental Aircraft Association #140897 EAA Technical Counselor #4562
Guest JM Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 Re: Task Bar "always on top": NOT! Try pressing the "windows" key in between the Alt and Ctrl keys. It will usually make the task bar apear as well as opening the start menu when I have a full screen program like this.
Guest surface9 Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 Re: Task Bar "always on top": NOT! On Oct 31, 9:34 pm, "JM" <jason.mangiaf...@verizon.net> wrote: > Try pressing the "windows" key in between the Alt and Ctrl keys. It will > usually make the task bar apear as well as opening the start menu when I > have a full screen program like this. Jim, When I pressed the "windows" key it terminated the slide show. The only key that will not end the slide show is the space bar, which pre- emtively advances to the next slide. I think it has to do with the way windows 2000 handles "full screen" GDI as opposed to windows 98se. Even in windows 98se, if the program uses DirectDraw, then the task bar stays hidden, but, Thumbs does not use DirectDraw but just a regular full-screen which allows the task bar's always on top attribute to take focus over that region of the screen. Windows 2000 either prohibits this, or, it doesn't allow any task to gain focus over any part of another tasks' full screen. It isn't a function of my particular PC (I have 5 PC's, all behave the same in this respect), but, it is a difference in the software implementation of the FULL SCREEN attribute, or, the differing implementation of "alwasy on top" attribute. They probably didn't bother to have specs this detailed for either system, and so there was no need to insure both systems behaved the same. I was hoping there was a system switch I could find that would allow "always on top" override (or whatever they would call it), but, alas, I guess this was just too detailed for the msoft team. This is a good reason for me to hang onto win98se - it has some nifty features that didn't survive the upgrades.
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