ANN: Custom Desktops

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Custom Desktops

Run your app on custom desktop.

Overview

Custom Desktops is a template which allows you to run the program on independent desktop. A user who is working with the program,
has no access to other Windows programs. No start menu, no taskbar, no desktop icons - nothing, except your application.
Just add global extension to your apps, that’s all.

Examples

Standard People app (examples\people): just run the exe and see how it works.

Features

  • There are no black boxes
  • Run on custom desktop any external program, not only yours
  • Switch between custom and default desktops

Requirements

  • C6 and newer
  • Windows 2000 and newer

Template chains

  • ABC
  • Clarion

Multi-dll support

  • Yes
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#3

Hi Mike - Is it just a template, or class modules added by the template? e.g., handcode friendly? :slight_smile:

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#4

It is a template, and a set of classes, and some handcoded test projects.

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#6

Here is an example of customizable shell on custom desktop. Download all, go to Shell folder and run CustomShell.exe.

#7

Hi Mike

Very interesting.

This demo shows error:

Error
Can’t start elevated process on custom desktop!

When executed as Administrator. Previous demo ran fine as Administrator.

Is this a configuration option or a technical requirement?

I’m not sure if running as administrator is particularly important, but I recall it was needed sometimes to access hardware (like serial ports) in a POS environment.

#8

Carlos,

It is a configuration option. At the moment I’m not sure why, but manifested programs with AsInvoker privileges don’t show their windows on custom desktop if ran elevated, so I turned this feature off.

#9

Seems similar to gotomeeting (GTM), which can only show UI of elevated processes when GTM is elevated too

#10

Carlos,

While the shell is running as not elevated, it allows to launch elevated external programs (Notepad->Open, from File dialog you can run external exe as an administrator).
The modified demo was reloaded to the dropbox.

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