system-tray

I am working on a Delphi program which will display an icon on the "tray". I am doing it "the hard way" (using the Shell_NotifyIcon api, etc and not a component, for reasons outside the point here). It's working fine but sometimes it seems like the icon is a little "blurry" in some systems. Now, I have experimented using 16x16 bmp, 32x32, etc. It seems like the system scales it down to the needed size, but the results are different depending on the OS version (or perhaps something else as well).... Have any of you any experience about the best size and color depth of a BMP to be extracted and

Is there a way I can put a console application in the system tray when minimizing ? A console has no window to minimize by itself. It runs in a command prompt window. You might hook the window messages and hide the window on minimize. In your application it's possible to add a tray icon just the same as you would do it in a windows application. Well, somehow this smells ... But: I'm not sure why you want to do this. A console application is by design different to a windows application. Hence, maybe it's an option to change the app to be a windows form application? Yes, you can do this. Create

I'm making a new WPF application and I need to be able to minimize the application and have nice and snug in the system tray, right beside the clock (or in that general area). This has to work on Windows XP, Vista and 7. I don't have to support older versions of Windows. What's the simplest way to achieve this if I'm using .NET 4? LaGrandMere Example in MSDN forum Here's a quick example to show how to minimize to the notification area. You need to add references to the System.Window.Forms and System.Drawing assemblies. public partial class Window1 : System.Windows.Window { public Window1() {

I'd like to know how to create a system tray popup message with python. I have seen those in lots of softaware, but yet difficult to find resources to do it easily with any language. Anyone knows some library for doing this in Python? With the help of the pywin32 library you can use the following example code I found here : from win32api import * from win32gui import * import win32con import sys, os import struct import time class WindowsBalloonTip: def __init__(self, title, msg): message_map = { win32con.WM_DESTROY: self.OnDestroy, } # Register the Window class. wc = WNDCLASS() hinst = wc

I have some code that popups a message box: MessageBox.Show(this, "You have not inputted a username or password. Would you like to configure your settings now?", "Settings Needed", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question); My problem is when this pops up my app is usually minimized to the tray. As a result the messagebox doesn't come to the front and it also doesnt appear along the start bar. The only way of seeing it is by alt-tabbing. Here is the code that minimizes my app (the parent) to the tray: if (FormWindowState.Minimized == WindowState) { Hide(); } you can try like this