alt-tab – Tarik Billa

Best practices for Alt-Tab support in a DirectX app?

August 9, 2023 by Tarik

I will assume you are using C++ for the purposes of my answers, but if you can afford to use C#, XNA (http://creators.xna.com/) is an excellent game platform that handles all of these issues for you. 1] This article is helpful for windows events in the window procedure to detect when a window loses or … Read more

Best way to hide a window from the Alt-Tab program switcher?

December 31, 2022 by Tarik

Update: According to @donovan, modern days WPF supports this natively, through setting ShowInTaskbar=”False” and Visibility=”Hidden” in the XAML. (I haven’t tested this yet, but nevertheless decided to bump the comment visibility) Original answer: There are two ways of hiding a window from the task switcher in Win32 API: to add the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW extended window style … Read more