How can i enumerate systray icons including the tooltips in delphi? Thanks in advance for your help.
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A:
The shell provides no facility for inspecting notification icons that don't belong to your program. (And it provides no way of enumerating even the icons that do belong to your program; you're expected to already know about those.)
I used to use a program that hijacked some or all of the icons and optionally displayed them in its own window instead of in the area near the clock, so it must have been able to get a list of all the icons. It was TraySaver, by Mike Lin. The source is available if you wish to see how his hack worked.
You can also take a look at the answers to a previous question that asked about controlling the position of icons in the notification area.
Rob Kennedy
2010-02-04 23:54:37
I can enumerate the icons in the systrayI can enumerate the application (handle,pid,path)I can control the position of the icons.BUT i cant get the tooltip. Thats what i'd like to know.
2010-02-06 13:49:34
You could have mentioned that in the question: "I can enumerate the icons, but I can't get the tooltips. Here's the code I'm using. Please help fill in the blanks." Did you read the second link I gave you?
Rob Kennedy
2010-02-06 16:23:38
Yes i read the second link.I can control the icons in the notification area. But thats another story.Using the same code more or less i can enumerate the icons in the system tray. (a translation from http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/ShellTrayInfo.aspx)But i cant get their tool tip.
2010-02-08 20:26:17
A:
You should take a look at the madKernal package of madshis component collection. It has some interfaces for working with trayicons. Beware, though:
With madKernel you can manage tray icons (see API "Shell_NotifyIcon") of any application. This kind of functionality is totally undocumented, but works well from win95 to winXP.
The ITrayIcon-interface has properties for hint, icon, position and more.
Vegar
2010-02-05 09:09:06