Windows 10 virtual desktops
lazarus / 34-Windows

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crsc · 2016-01-04 14:50

Virtual desktops are new to Windows 10. I made a programm with an
alert popup window. When I start the program on virtual desktop 1, for
example, and switch to virtual desktop 2 for coding and the program on
virtual desktop 1 popup the alert window, is it possible to display
the alert window on the current selected virtual desktop 2 or to all
desktops and not only on desktop 1?

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Ñuño_Martínez · 2016-01-07 12:59

Didn't use W10, but if it works like Linux (dreaming doesn't cost
money  ) then you cannot. Or better, you cannot in an easy way. May be
digging the "windows.h" API (or whatever they call it now) you can
find something (I'm sure that you can get the WHANDLE of any virtual
desktop and bind it with your application's alert dialog), or may be
it's an undocumented function inside SYSTEM64.DLL or any other DLL...

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vhanla · 2016-01-08 02:21

You should read official IVirtualDesktopManager interface
documentation, it has some limitations though, and as I read if your
application is on focus, you can set events to detect when you switch
to another virtual desktop so you can make your application move to
that another virtual desktop, but since your application would not be
on focus at that moment it might be better to try using Windows 10's
notification API.

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crsc · 2016-01-10 14:23

Thank you for your answers. I have not found any solution on windows
10 yet, but on Linux Mint 17.3, you can display an application on all
desktops. Then I minimize the application and the alert window pop up
on every desktop, too. Not what I exactly wanted but it is a
workaround for now.

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balazsszekely · 2016-01-10 16:18

Take a look at this:
http://www.cyberforum.ru/blogs/105416/blog3671.html
It shouldn't be to difficult to translate.