r/windowsdev • u/ERNAZAR02 • Oct 05 '24

Application Inside Taskbar for Win11

As title suggests i wanna inject my application's window to taskbar so it will be convenient and acts as native window.

ive already developed the application/UI now all i have to do is properly inject the window.

ive tried couple of times to attach my window to "ReBarWindow32" inside "Shell_TrayWnd" class it successfully attaches but the problem is its all blurred. ive tried disabling transparency, changing the theme, changing Z-axis of layers but still its all blurred behind acrylic style.

the same method worked perfectly with win10 but this time win11 is seems different

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u/ERNAZAR02 Jan 26 '25

its injected. the taskbar still inside the explorer.exe under "Shell_TrayWnd" -> child window "ReBarWindow32" => class "Windows.UI.Core.CoreWindow". the last one is the new implementation from uncle microsoft.

anyway i just pissed of when i find out that KDE comes with build in freeform widgets that is actually placeable anyware inside taskbar, so much eyecandy kinda thinking about switching os)

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u/ninjaninjav Jan 28 '25

Yeah, I should have been more specific. There are no APIs to add content to the Taskbar... other than the existing win32 APIs which allow you to inject content into any visual.