>>>>>When running my VB apps, I would prefer that they are not shown as a button on the windows taskbar but as an Icon on the winows taskbar Icon tray. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance for any help.
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>>>>there are a few articles on this on msdn. i was looking at them yesterday and the examples are in vb. unfortunatly i couldn't get them to work in vfp ( my goal ) but if the examples work, you should be good to go.
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>>>>search for Shell_NotifyIcon, NotifyIconData, System Tray
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>>>Thanks for your help,
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>>>My goal is also too get this to work in VFP. I just wanted a VB example to go by. Thanks. If i get it to work I wil let you know.
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>>great.
>>i've successfully used several api calls however none that deal with structures. i was using arnon's struct.vcx to pack the structure for notifyicondata into a fox string. i'm pretty sure i was doing it right. the window handle parameter was easy but i'm not sure about the icon handle.
>>let me know if you figure it out and i will do the same for you. i probably won't be able to get back to it for the next few days.
>>gray
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>Hi,
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>I'm using an API based solution for the Tray Icon operation (one API function).
>No OCX's used.
>The source origins from an internet resource which I'm trying to track.
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>Having seen a lot of search for such code in various mailing lists and newsgroups I fetched the necessary pieces of code from my application and compiled a sample called BeaTray.vbp.
>Including the compiled VB5 exe it is a zipped file about 20 Kb in size.
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>If You would like the project file, please tell me.
>
>Kent Åsberg

i'd love to check it out. if you can email it to grayp@pinn.net that would be great.