yesss. that's it. i forgot the #define. ok man thank you! i appreciate your efforts!

hm, although i hoped that i didn't have to redraw the icon by my self it's seems there leads no way around. 16 colors are ridiculous :mad: however, thanks anyway.

yesss that's it! thanks a lot!! ... AnimateWindow was completely new to me :doh:

yes thanks. now i got what i want. here's what i have done: i've used a simple MFC dialog based application. i used to start it in InitInstance with RunModalLoop() and set the visible mode of the dialog in the resource editor to false. In the CDialog derived class i've overloaded the function OnCreate and added the following Window Style: ModifyStyleEx(0, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW ); and, well, it works: NO WINDOW. NO DIALOG. NO TASKBAR ENTRY. AND I STILL GOT MY MESSAGE MAP :cool: thanks everone. greetings

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