system-tray

Can you send a signal to Windows Explorer to make it refresh the systray icons?

This problem has been afflicting me for quite a while and it's been really annoying. Every time I login after a reboot/power cycle the explorer takes some time to show up. I've taken the step of waiting for all the services to boot up and then I login, but it doesn't make any difference. The result is always the same: Some of the icons ...

how to put an .net application in system tray when minimized?

can anyone please suggest a good code example of vb.net/c# code to put the application in system tray when minized. ...

How to make a Windows Forms .NET application display as tray icon?

What needs to be done to have your .NET application show up in Window's system tray as icon? And how do you handle mousebutton clicks on said icon? ...

.net system tray application to launch when a USB device is plugged in

Hi, How do I get my .net system tray application to popup when a USB device is plugged in? ...

How do I display an icon in the System Tray?

I want to make my .Net application display a notification in the system tray. So I want to show an icon for that, can anyone tell how to do that? ...

My exe runs fine by itself, but does nothing when loaded by a service

Simple exe for a tray icon, that works fine independently I call it using a windows service, and it seems to run(in task manager) but it dosnt seem to exec any code. ie no tray icon etc. ...

A Service Loaded exe cant 'System.Diagnostics.Process.Start' a URL?

I have a simple Tray icon program that opens a site using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("URL") And it works fine independently, however when a service loads it, it gives a file not found exception when trying to open the url, and after testing it can open normal extensions eg .txt (The service has desktop interaction enabled) ...

How would a system tray application be accomplished on other platforms?

Windows has the "system tray" that houses the clock and alway-running services like MSN, Steam, etc. I'd like to develop a wxPython tray application but I'm wondering how well this will port to other platforms. What is the tray equivalent on each platform, and how much manual work would be required to support Windows, OSX and Linux (wh...

How to display text in system tray icon with win32 API?

Trying to create a small monitor application that displays current internet usage as percentage in system tray in C using win32 API. Also wanting to use colour background or colour text based on how much is used relative to days left in month. EDIT: To clarify I am wanting the system tray icon to be dynamic. As the percentage changes ...

A way to ensure that a system tray icon is removed... guaranteed

Is there a way to guarantee that your system tray icon is removed? To add the system tray icon you do: Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &m_tnd); To remove the system tray icon you do: Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_DELETE, &m_tnd); What I want to know: what if you application crashes? The icon stays in your system tray until you mouse over. Is th...

Win32: Returning a minimized and hidden window to top.

I'm unable to restore a window after "minimizing" a window to tray, by doing this in wndproc: case WM_SIZE: if (wparam==SIZE_MINIMIZED) { ShowWindow(hwnd,SW_HIDE); } break; The tray message handler looks like this: case TRAY_ICON_MESSAGE: switch(lparam) { case WM_LBUTTONDOWN: ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_RESTORE); BringW...

Tray Icon animation

I know how I do to place a icon in the systray. But what the best method to perform systray icon animation? animated gifs? timers? Preferentially using C# and/or WPF. Thanks! ...

How do I ask Windows for the size of system tray icons?

I noticed that my app sends icons to the Windows tray with a size of 16x16 pixels--and my Vista PC I've got a doublewide taskbar that appears to show icons at 18x18. The resizing artifacts on my app's icon look awful. How can I ask Windows what size the icons should be? edit: I'm generating the icon dynamically, with a pixel font text...

C# program win-startup to system tray...

Hello all, I have my c# program set to run when windows starts by adding it to the Windows Registry. It works fine, but here is my problem... I want the program to start in the system tray, but only when it is started automatically by Windows. If the user double-clicks the program from the desktop, then I do not want the program to s...

Large items in the notification area (AKA system tray)?

I would like to place some large items in the XP system tray. (the one next to the clock) By this i mean items that take up more than the standard icon space. I know it can be done because I have seen several weather and time applications with this functionality. For example http://www.respectsoft.com/weather-clock-screenshots.php (se...

SysTray Icon not visible after restart for a program running as administrator.

I have a simplest form of an application, in which I am showing a SysTray Icon and adding the application in Startup items. Application is developed in C#. I want tray icon to be shown even after restart of the machine. Currently, I am facing a strange behavior while running the exe using "Run as Administrator". When I use under administ...

.Net Console Application in System tray

Is there a way I can put a console application in the system tray when minimizing ? I use .Net 3.5 with c# ...

How do I put a Java app in the system tray?

I have a little control-panel, just a little application that I made. I would like to minimize/put the control-panel up/down with the systemicons, together with battery life, date, networks etc. Anyone that can give me a clue, link to a tutorial or something to read? ...

PyQt4 Minimize to Tray

Is there a way to minimize to tray in PyQt4? I've already worked with the QSystemTrayIcon class, but now I would like to minimize or "hide" my app window, and show only the tray icon. Has anybody done this? Any direction would be appreciated. Using Python 2.5.4 and PyQt4 on Window XP Pro ...

How to pop-up TIPS and pop-over any other windows open

Is there any way to pop-up TIPS and pop-over any other windows open? I don't find a flag to set it in NOTIFYICONDATA struct. ...