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DF 8.0b - Move pinned Taskbar app from Windows taksbar to DF taskbar?

Csaba Együd835824

12 discussion posts

Hi,

I have installed Kwerty Gmail Notifier app which is pinned to the main taskbar. It has no main window and so I cannot move it to the other monitor and then pin to that.

If I used the Multi-Monitor Shortcut Editor and added the application to the second taskbar.
It appears there but won't update the layer (unread mail count) on the DF taskbar button but only on the main taskbar.

Is it s.g. with DF or Kwerty? Do you have any idea to workaround this?

Thank you

-- Csaba

Mar 8, 2016 • #1

That's likely due to the window not actually being on the DF taskbar, even though the shortcut is. I've found a way to work around this though. I've attached a Scripted Function that will move the hidden Gmail Notifier window to a location on the second screen, but where it's still hidden. You'll have to change the co-ordinates depending on how your monitors are setup.

On the Settings > Functions tab, click Add Scripted
Give it a name and a key combination
Paste in the code from the attached text file
Edit the co-ordinates if necessary (3840x1080 in the sample script). You'll want to move the window to the extreme lower-right of whatever monitor you want the taskbar button to be on. In the attached script, I used a system with 2 monitors, both 1920x1080, with the primary on the left. The co-ordinate is based on the top-left pixel of the primary being 0, 0. So in my script, 3840, 1080 is the lower-right pixel on the second monitor.
Click OK, then OK again, and press the key combination to test it out

Hope that helps!

• Attachment: GmailNotifierScript.txt [292 bytes]

Mar 8, 2016 • #2

Csaba Együd835824

12 discussion posts

Hi Keith,

Thank you for your effort, nice of you.

I imported the script - I like this feature very much! - and since I have a primary monitor on the right (1920x1080) and s secondary on the left (1680x1050), I modified the coordinates like this:

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BFS.Window.SetLocation(window, -1680, 1050);

Also, I added the shortcut to the DF taskbar by the shortcut editor.

Now I ran the script by keyboard shortcut, but nothing has changed.
I can imagine two things:
1.) I made a mistake in calculating the coordinates
2.) the program uses directly the taskbar of the primary monitor.

Do you have any idea?

Thank you so much.

-- Csaba

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Mar 8, 2016 • #3

Could you attach a copy of your troubleshooting info? The co-ordinates may need to be slightly different depending on how the monitors are aligned vertically.

Open the Settings > Troubleshooting tab
Click the "Copy to Clipboard" button
Paste the text into a text file (please don't paste the text directly into your reply, the formatting gets garbled and makes it difficult to parse)
Reply with the file attached

Mar 8, 2016 • #4