>I'm working with an application that reads temperatures from an array of sensors. The temperatures are read every five minutes, and stuffed into a database.
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>I want the application to be totally invisible to the user, except for a little flashing icon in the system tray, indicating that everything is OK.
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>I also want a pop-up menu to appear, when I right-click the icon in the system tray. When selecting a menu-item, let us say 'Preferences', my 'Preferences'-form will pop up on the desktop.
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>How can I achieve the above in Visual Foxpro 5.0?
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>Regards,
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>Werner Vesteraas
>Simguard AS

If your application is running under NT Workstation or Server, then you can register the application EXE as a service and have it start automatically when NT boots. If the application starts as a service, no windows are evident. You have to be careful that errors don't display messagebox windows because any pause will stall your application. I'm not sure how to get the same functionality in Windows 95 where the application does not show up on the taskbar.