Tray

Description

Short story: Add your application's icon to the taskbar's notification tray (systray) properly. Updated for VB6 with native subclassing.

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Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

• Stay in the Tray, Programming Techniques, VBPJ, November 1996
• Restore Tray Icons After Crashes, Q&A, VSM, April 2002

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module	Library	Function
Tray.bas	kernel32 shell32 user32	GetVersionEx Shell_NotifyIcon PostMessage RegisterWindowMessage SetForegroundWindow

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Download

Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution. Download Tray.zip, 24Kb, Last Updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2012

See Also

The following resources may also be of interest:

• HookMe - Native subclassing technique for VB5/6. Extremely clean.
• HookXP - Demonstrates native Windows subclassing method with no risk of improper teardown. Very flexible!
• MsgHook - Freeware subclassing controls.

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