Windows NT question per se

[Scott Serlin]

Does anyone know how to manipulate labview windows (or other windows for
that matter) in the taskbar so that I can re-order them to my liking?
Please let me know. I've searched many windowsNT websites for this
answer but have not found any todate.

Thanks in advance.

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Scott

[CraigGraham]

Scott Serlin wrote in message
news:39ABD87E.2D98AF4F@comm.mot.com...
> Does anyone know how to manipulate labview windows (or other windows for
> that matter) in the taskbar so that I can re-order them to my liking?
> Please let me know. I've searched many windowsNT websites for this
> answer but have not found any todate.


The clutter is something that's irritated me for some time but I've not
found a way around it.

However, if you give your VIs logical hierarchical names, I find the
"Windows" menu in the VIs to be more useful than the individual entry in the
taskbar- especially when you get to the point that on a 1600x1280 display
with the taskbar positioned vertically down the side you have two full
columns of window entries. The menu is
sorted alphabetically- the taskbar is
simply the order of window opening.

I'm not sure how this problem could really be tackled. The idea of multiple
virtual desktops sounds nice, with different applications on different
desktops- it certainly reduces taskbar clutter, but I found the delay when
switching desktops (since all the open windows must be redrawn) to be too
annoying. On my office P3/450 with 256 megs (so no swapping) it can take a
couple of seconds to switch displays, which if you want to go back and forth
rapidly becomes a pain. If you want to try, the best I found was "Perfect
Screens", available from your friendly local shareware mirror.

It would be nice if someone came up with a virtual desktop scheme that used
the memory on the display card- which nowadays is often quite large- to
buffer several virtual displays simultaneously, so that display switching
simply involves a pointer in the card to a different display buffer, with no
redraw delays. This is one of the (few)
things I really miss in NT after the
bygone Amiga days.