How do I make a program, while it is running in the background, show up in
the task bar beside the time, such as the antivirus does and numerous other
programs.  I imagine it is an api call.

Help please

thanks

Chris

Hello GenCross, All,
I think you need to read the article at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/0/85.asp

Also, I have made various modifications to the code in that article,
if you are interested, my email server is open...

By the way, I was playing with a willy-nilly call to Shell_NotifyText
(which I invented).  I know, there is no such thing, supposedly, but
it was getting non-0 returns and causing systray "effects", although
most were strange, if not frightening, so it leads me to believe there
is a way to send strings to the systray.  MS does it with the time, or
so it seems.

Anyone know?  I think the only thing standing in our way is the string
argument, all the other arguments that are in Shell_NotifyIcon, which
is not in Applenam's book, BTW, seem to have no barring.  I want to
send a text string with the date to the systray, right now, I am doing
something a little weird to get the date down there (putting mulitiple
icons from multiple hidden forms with little numbers on them), and am
interested in other solutions.  

Best Wishes,
Charlie