Active Desktop Replacement In Windows 7
To follow up, I was able to figure a way out to reproduce this functionality using Flash Builder 4 — and it also negates the need to use AutoHotKey (which is an awesome app to know about–thanks!!). Here is how it works:Create a new AIR app (for which an taskbar icon is required).
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This app spawns a new application component based on mx:Window with the HTMLLoader in it. I used a separate component for this so it could function independently from the main app. Child apps in AIR do.not. require an icon so you can set the type=NativeWindowType.LIGHTWEIGHT on this new component when you open it. As soon as this new window opens it dispatches a complete event. The main app listens for the complete event and then closes itself — taking the taskbar icon with it. Since (I believe) in Windows 7 the shortcut “Windows/M” works from the items in the task bar, the fact that the child app is not in the task bar prevents it from being minimized by the shortcut.By the way, this seems to work only on Windows — not Mac — so a different solution would be required for that.Thanks for the starting point on on this solution!