PuTTY semi-bug beepind-win2k

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summary: Clean up taskbar bell indication
class: semi-bug: This might or might not be a bug, depending on your precise definition of what a bug is.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
priority: medium: This should be fixed one day.
fixed-in: r7119 2007-01-17 (0.59) (0.60)

The taskbar bell indication needs cleaning up. It works nicely on Win95/NT4 but is quite ugly on more recent versions of Windows such as Win2K.

We should use FlashWindowEx() if it's available at run-time (this just needs calling once, and will flash the window as necessary), and fall back to the current FlashWindow() manual flashing implementation if not.

Where FlashWindowEx() is available, `steady' mode flashes the window the conventional number of times and then leaves the taskbar entry highlighted.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2007-01-16 20:54:58 +0000)