I have an AIR app about half way done right now. I was informed by the client today that he does not want a tab to show up in his task bar. I already have this in place for new windows by making them lightweight. I do not know how to make the main window lightweight though. If there is not a way, is there a work around, like not not having a main window and just opening lightweight windows, don't know how that could be done either though? Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks!
Check this doc out. -- Yes, you can do this. In short, you have to hide the initial window - then display your application in a lightweight window.
Also - do note: On a Mac - the behavior is different. By convention, a window is not shown in the 'task bar' when it is displayed. When it is minimized it is in the bar. To hide the application when minimized on a Mac - you have to make the window 'invisible' instead of minimizing it. The doc mentioned above gives further details.
The key part of the doc for your case:
On the Windows operating system, windows created with the types utility or lightweight do not appear on the taskbar. Invisible windows do not appear on the taskbar, either.
Because the initial window is necessarily of type, normal, in order to create an application without any windows appearing in the taskbar, you must either close the inital window or leave it invisible.
To close all windows in your application without terminating the application, set the autoExit property of the NativeApplication object to false before closing the last window. To simply prevent the intial window from ever becoming visible, add false to the element of the application descriptor file (and do not set the visible property to true or call the activate() method of the window).
In new windows opened by the application, set the type property of the NativeWindowInitOption object passed to the window constructor to NativeWindowType.UTILITY or NativeWindowType.LIGHTWEIGHT.
