Hide Form

[spif2001]

Hi I have an app, which main form at startup isn't shown. It is minimized, it is not shown in the taskbar and the app present itself via a systray icon. If u whant to see the Form, you click on the systray icon and I maximize the Form. The problem is, that I get a small form bar in the lower left corner of the screen, when my app is minimized and I don't whant that, since I got my systray icon to remaximize it with. How do I remove that annoying bar? I tried setting the Opacity property and that actually worked. Great! Here I need to point out, that the app is a Support app, which our support division can use when using Remote Desktop on our customers PCs. I therefore tried using Remote Desktop and to my surprise the app whent invisible! :omg: I could not maximize it anymore. After some debugging I discovered that the Opacity property caused that!?! :confused: So if any of you have a solution other than using the Opacity property I would greatly appreciate it. TIA -spif2001 I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set. And I think I need a Lear jet.

[Gavin Jeffrey]

Have you tried - form.Size = new Size(0,0); ?

[spif2001]

the bar still shows af resizing I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set. And I think I need a Lear jet.

[Robert Rohde]

Try setting the FormBorderStyle property of the form to FormBorderStyle.None.

[spif2001]

hmmm - that works when my app starts, but when I Maximize it and the Minimize it again, the Form bar reappears... :confused: I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set. And I think I need a Lear jet.

[Robert Rohde]

It just came to my mind that you could instead of minimizing the form and trying to hide the bar just make the whole form invisible (form.Visible = false;).

[spif2001]

I tried that too :) to no avail. And I got it working using Hide(), except at startup. I tried to Hide() it in another thread like this: public MainForm() { InitializeComponent(); Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(HideFunc)); t.Start(); }//constructor private void HideFunc() { Thread.Sleep(1); this.Hide(); } It works (even though the Form flickers before hiding). If I remove the Sleep(1) call the Form whont hide!? Am I missing some fundamental programming issue here or what? I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set. And I think I need a Lear jet.