JS Virtual Desktop Manager
0.9.1
License: | Freeware |
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Price: |
$0.00
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Downloads: | 5 |
Op. System: | Windows All |
Last updated: | 2008-09-26 |
File size: | 1008 KB |
Publisher: | Jeremy Stanley |
Publisher description for JS Virtual Desktop Manager

A simple application that will help you manage a number of virtual desktops VDM is written in C++ and is a Win32 API application (non-MFC). It uses a simple algorithm: when switching to a new desktop, handles to all the windows on the current desktop are saved to a list and hidden. Next, the windows on the destination desktop are shown. VDM does not need to track the creation and destruction of windows--the "current" desktops list isnt created until you switch away from it.To hide windows, VDM calls the Win32 API function ShowWindow with the SW_HIDE parameter (primary method) or uses SetParent to set the windows parent to a hidden window owned by VDM (alternate method, selected with the -a command-line parameter). Some programs seem to agree more with one method than with the other--tr