Been a while since i got in last. Good to be back.
I have a project that requires me to put a search box on the desktop of our domain users that allow them to search the phone book of our organization.
After a couple of readings, i came up with two approaches. I prefer to put a textbox on the taskbar of windows, which will be always visible and hence won't interfere the windows open by the user. But so far, i havent got much for this approach, except for a project at codeproject.com, which obviously didnt work for me (still trying it, though).
A second option is to put a border less window on users' desktop that will be always on top (z-index?) and hence the user can type any lookup strings, even in the middle of somework.
I would like to know you all experienced programmers views on this. Feel free to pour any related info.
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Hi, All,
Been a while since i got in last. Good to be back.
I have a project that requires me to put a search box on the desktop of our domain users that allow them to search the phone book of our organization.
After a couple of readings, i came up with two approaches. I prefer to put a textbox on the taskbar of windows, which will be always visible and hence won't interfere the windows open by the user. But so far, i havent got much for this approach, except for a project at codeproject.com, which obviously didnt work for me (still trying it, though).
A second option is to put a border less window on users' desktop that will be always on top (z-index?) and hence the user can type any lookup strings, even in the middle of somework.
I would like to know you all experienced programmers views on this. Feel free to pour any related info.
Thanks,
Salaams,
Hameed
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