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Appbar Notification Messages

The system sends messages to notify an appbar about events that can effect its position and appearance. The messages are sent in the context of an application-defined message. The application specifies the identifier of the message when it sends the ABM_NEW message to register the appbar. The notification code is in the wParam parameter of the application-defined message.

An appbar receives the ABN_POSCHANGED notification message when the taskbar's size, position, or visibility state changes, when another appbar is added to the same edge of the screen, or when another appbar on the same edge of the screen is resized or removed. An appbar should respond to this notification message by sending ABM_QUERYPOS and ABM_SETPOS messages. If an appbar's position has changed, it should call the MoveWindow function to move itself to the new position.

The system sends the ABN_STATECHANGE notification message whenever the taskbar's autohide or always-on-top state has changed

that is, when the user checks or unchecks the "Always on top" or "Auto hide" check box on the taskbar's property sheet. An appbar can use this notification message to set its state to conform to that of the taskbar, if desired.

When a full-screen application is started or when the last full-screen application is closed, an appbar receives the ABN_FULLSCREENAPP notification message. The lParam parameter indicates whether the full-screen application is opening or closing. If it is opening, the appbar must drop to the bottom of the Z order. The appbar should restore its Z order position when the last full-screen application has closed.

An appbar receives the ABN_WINDOWARRANGE notification message when the user selects the Cascade, Tile Horizontally, or Tile Vertically command from the task bar's context menu. The system sends the message two times

before rearranging the windows (lParam is TRUE) and after arranging the windows (lParam is FALSE).

An appbar can use ABN_WINDOWARRANGE messages to exclude itself from the cascade or tile operation. To exclude itself, the appbar should hide itself when lParam is TRUE and show itself when lParam is FALSE. If an appbar hides itself in response to this message, it does not need to send the ABM_QUERYPOS and ABM_SETPOS messages in response to the cascade or tile operation.

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