Fix for left over icons on windows taskbar

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Tutorial by: Tomaz

Mailto: tompsson@hotmail.com

Probably the easiest and shortest tutorial in history :)

This tutorial is for the ref_gl.dll

So... When i started up Quake2 the first time and started to play with the on-the-fly resolution switching, i noticed that when switching from fullscreen to window mode or between fullscreen modes, there was this empty window left in the Windows taskbar. And each time i did a resolution switch it left another window there. So now i figured i should fix this and... well... here it is :)

file: glw_imp.c
function: GLimp_Shutdown

find this piece of code

 
 
 if (glw_state.hWnd)
 {
  DestroyWindow ( glw_state.hWnd );
 glw_state.hWnd = NULL;
 }
 
 

all we need to do is add this

 
 
 ShowWindow (glw_state.hWnd, SW_HIDE);
 
 

before the DestroyWindow call to make it look like this

 
 
 if (glw_state.hWnd)
 {
 ShowWindow (glw_state.hWnd, SW_HIDE);
 DestroyWindow ( glw_state.hWnd );
 glw_state.hWnd = NULL;
 }
 
 

there we go... didnt i say it was the shortest tutorial in history :)

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