Hello All

I would like to start my dialog based application minimised and have an
icon appear in the system tray under Windows 95 and Windows NT4.  I have
currently achieved this by sending myself on startup and soon after the
application minimises itself into the system tray.  Although this does
work, I am sure there is a cleaner method.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
        Paul

WWW   : http://www.*-*-*.com/ ~paul_git/

Use ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE) in your OnInitDialog() as follows:

BOOL CMinimizedDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
        CDialog::OnInitDialog();

        // Add "About..." menu item to system menu.

        // IDM_ABOUTBOX must be in the system command range.
        ASSERT((IDM_ABOUTBOX & 0xFFF0) == IDM_ABOUTBOX);
        ASSERT(IDM_ABOUTBOX < 0xF000);

        CMenu* pSysMenu = GetSystemMenu(FALSE);
        if (pSysMenu != NULL)
        {
                CString strAboutMenu;
                strAboutMenu.LoadString(IDS_ABOUTBOX);
                if (!strAboutMenu.IsEmpty())
                {
                        pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF_SEPARATOR);
                        pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF_STRING, IDM_ABOUTBOX, strAboutMenu);
                }
        }

        // Set the icon for this dialog.  The framework does this automatically
        //  when the application's main window is not a dialog
        SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE);                 // Set big icon
        SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE);                // Set small icon

        // TODO: Add extra initialization here
        ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE);  // THIS STARTS YOUR DIALOG BASED APPLICATION
MINIMIZED
        return TRUE;  // return TRUE  unless you set the focus to a control