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VB Forum / General 2 / August 2004Using the systray in VB6
Hi, I want my app icon to go in the systray when I minimized it, with a popup menu that appear when I right-click on the icon in the systray. I used a freeware class for this since a few years (clsSysTray.cls, made by Martin Richardson) and it worked well with pre-Windows XP version, but in Windows XP sometime the icon doesn't appear in the system tray, and the app is loaded in memory! My app loads with Windows (Startup folder) and goes automatically in the systray at startup, maybe sometime WinXP "forget" the icon while it is loading everything else, I don't know??? Unless someone use an updated version of this class which works fine in XP (if it exists I didn't found it!), I need suggestion for freeware code that work fine in ALL version of Windows. Thanks. Jack http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/subclass/shellnotifybasic.htm  SignatureRandy Birch MVP Visual Basic http://vbnet.mvps.org/ Please respond only to the newsgroups so all can benefit. : Hi, : [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] : : Jack Hi Randy, Thanks for your answer. I already found and tried your demo a few days ago (yes, I made some search before posting my question ;-) and it works very well, but I forgot to mention a specification I need: 1) When my app is open I want its icon in the normal task bar (with or without its icon in the system tray at the same time, I can accept both). 2) When my app is minimized I want its icon in the task bar to DISAPPEAR and be replaced by its icon in the system tray. The raison for this is that my app is an organizer that (usually) is always running on the user computer, and I want to free space on the task bar when my app is minimized by the user and not used. This way more space will be available on the task bar and the user will have access to the most used functions by a right-click menu on the icon in the system tray without having to open the app window. Can you demo be modified in such a way? Thanks. Jack > http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/subclass/shellnotifybasic.htm > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > : > : Jack > Hi Randy, > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > : > > : Jack Hi Jack. I have had the same problem with my app. It is actually caused by your app loading before the systray. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to trap the message systray generates when it's finished loading. A (naff) work arround is to delete and reload the icon on a timer set at 1 minute intervals. HTH Dave <snip> >I have had the same problem with my app. It is actually caused by your app >loading before the systray. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to trap the >message systray generates when it's finished loading. A (naff) work arround >is to delete and reload the icon on a timer set at 1 minute intervals. Try creating and deleting some Mutexes during the process - or use semaphores >I have had the same problem with my app. It is actually caused by your app >loading before the systray. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to trap the >message systray generates when it's finished loading. A (naff) work arround >is to delete and reload the icon on a timer set at 1 minute intervals. You should only enable the tray, once you're past your main form's Activate event, or issue a me.show before the call to 'tray.show'. SignatureRegards, Frank That should work. And if the intent is to add the icon without showing the form on the screen, the OP could issue a Move statement in the load event to move the form off-screen by setting something like form1.move -20000. SignatureRandy Birch MVP Visual Basic http://vbnet.mvps.org/ Please respond only to the newsgroups so all can benefit. : >I have had the same problem with my app. It is actually caused by your app : >loading before the systray. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to trap the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] : You should only enable the tray, once you're past your main form's : Activate event, or issue a me.show before the call to 'tray.show'. Try mine. www.microcreate.co.uk and browse through the VB6 source code. The menu will have to be done manually, but it does include a demo so you can see how. And (if I've remembered to update it) it also includes the balloon tips for XP. > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Jack |
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