We are experiencing this annoying problem where we have a context menu on our tray icon, if we display this context menu we have to SetForegroundWindow and bring it to the front. This is really annoying and not at all what we want. Is there a workaround, I notice that Outlook MS Messenger and other MS apps do not suffer this, perhaps th...
What is the proper way to minimize a WinForms app to the system tray? I've seen hackish solutions like, "minimize, set ShowInTaskbar = false, then show your NotifyIcon." Solutions like that are hackish because the app doesn't appear to minimize to the tray like other apps, the code has to detect when to set ShowInTaskbar = true, among ...
I'm trying to use a transparent PNG as the icon for my Java application. The image on the JFrame and task bar work great. However, when I use the image with a TrayIcon, I get a black matte background around the edge of the PNG. Has anybody else come across this issue? I would really like to use a PNG instead of GIF or JPEG. ...
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! ...
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...
Hi all, i have a program which displays tray icon and popups and balloon when some event occurs. The problem arises when i change the image of the try icon no balloon popups when the event occurs what could i be missing? Abdul khaliq ...
I'm writing a webmail checker in python and I want it to just sit on the tray icon and warn me when there is a new email. Could anyone point me in the right direction as far as the gtk code? I already coded the bits necessary to check for new email but it's CLI right now. ...
Hello, I compiled my trayicon utility c++ code in visual studio 2005 express edition and tray icon balloons showed up successfully but later I deleted my firewall, switched on to windows firewall and now I am on another firewall software. Now i ran my same project and balloons showed up successfully but when i rebuilt it, i can't see bal...
Hello All, This is my first question in StackOverflow, so I would try to explain my self the best I can. I made an small app trying to emularte the windows Procastination Killer Application, using pygtk and pygame for the sound alerts. Here is a video of my little app running http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE-QPA9p-8 My Issue is tha...
Hi, Do you know any example with nicer notification in system tray? I don`t like standard baloon so maybe there are others free, third-party components I can use? Thanks ...
Note: code samples have been simplified, but the overall structure remains intact. I am working on a Win32 application whose main interface is a system tray icon. I create a dummy window, using HWND_MESSAGE as its parent, to receive the icon's messages: WNDCLASSEX wndClass; wndClass.lpfnWndProc = &iconWindowProc; // ... iconWindowHandl...
Hello. I have tried to create a custom-painted icon using QT under window. The following code displays an icon, but it looks transparent instead of color filled :(. OS is WinXP SP3, IDE is latest QTCreator. int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { QApplication oApp( argc, argv ); QImage oImg( 16, 16, QImage::Format_RGB32 ); oImg.fil...
The real question here might be if there's a better way to display desktop messages in Java. However... I'm using the Java trayicon to display messages to a desktop user. Because they want to keep certain messages up until the user clicks on them, in order to use the 'displayMessage' feature, I have to keep displaying them until the u...
I have created a sample java application for using tray icon. trayIcon.displayMessage("Sun TrayIcon Demo", "This is an error message", TrayIcon.MessageType.ERROR); If I use the above then It uses error icon of the system default in case of Linux and Windows but in Mac the look and feel is different. I want ...
Work on a support helpdesk. New tickets come in and records are created in a SQL Table and they are dumped to a specific category where any analyst can pick them up. Front end does not notify analysts when there are new tickets, so have to contonously refresh the front-end (browser) to see if new tickets are coming into the 'To Be Assign...
Is it possible to have a textbox in wpf traybar popup? ...
Hello, I am looking for a api from which I can build tray icons in mostly every platform, especially vista. A clean interface is a good thing Thank you ...
I have a delphi app that runs minimized to a tray icon. When the tray icon is double clicked the app opens a non-modal user interface form. I have added logic to the app to detect whether it is already running. If it isn't running, it starts up and miminizes itself to the tray. If it is already running, I want it to pass control to...
hi can some one show me how to hide/show tray icons of other applications/processes using my application,i want to hide the ''connected to internet''icon(those two computers that turn blue when data is sent/recieved/both) from my app edit: i can hide system clock using this snippet taken from http://scalabium.com/faq/dct0147.htm ShowWin...
Hello! I've got a simple tray icon application, but "About" context menu item doesn't work at all. I'm definitly mising something simple, but important here. The question is what should i fix to see "About" menu item working? import sys from PyQt4 import QtCore from PyQt4 import QtGui class SystemTrayIcon(QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon): ...