Hello

In windows 95, you have your task bar with your start button and
applications etc at the bottom of the screen.  You also have the icon box
with background applications and your clock etc at the right of the task
bar.

Can anybody point me in the direction of some information on how to have an
application running in this icon box rather than on the main task bar.

I am trying to implement a application manager whereas you log into it at
boot-time and then it sits there until you are ready to start up one of it's
component applications.

Email or post replies.

Many Thanks

Paul M

***** VB5 Pro, service pack 3, win 95

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Paul McCusker
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:33:15 +0100, "Paul McCusker"

Hi,

It is painfully easy to implement just such the feature you are after.
You only need to use one function, Shell_NotifyIcon.

To use it, you need to have a NOTIFYICONDATA structure, as outlined
below:

Type NOTIFYICONDATA
        cbSize As Long
        hwnd As Long
        uID As Long
        uFlags As Long
        uCallbackMessage As Long
        hIcon As Long
        szTip As String * 64
End Type

cbSize
        The size of the structure,
hwnd
        Handle of the window that receives notification messages
uID
        Application-defined identifier of the taskbar icon
        (p.s. Your program can have more than one icon in the tray)
uFlags
        Set of flags that indicate which other members have valid info
        NIF_ICON - the icon is valid (hIcon)
        NIF_MESSAGE - the callback message is valid (uCallbackMessage)
        NIF_TIP - the tooltip is valid (szTip)
uCallbackMessage
        Application-defined message identifier
hIcon
        Handle of icon to be displayed in system tray
szTip
        String containing a tooltip that is displayed after a certain time

So, you fill in this structure and pass if to Shell_NotifyIcon along
with the action you want to perform. This can be one of three actions:

NIM_ADD
        Adds an icon to the tray
NIM_DELETE
        Deletes an icon from the tray
NIM_MODIFY
        Modifies the properties of an icon

Unfortunatly, this isn't the most straigtfoward thing in the world due
to the way VB works (it's alot easier in VC++), but it can be done (I
have done it).

I've whipped up a quick application that does this, and I'll email the
source to you. (I don't know what version of VB your using. I'll
assume 5.0).

I hope this helps,

Michael Priestman

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