Minimizing to task tray

[rino_2]

Hi,

I’m making a program that will usually be open for a long time running in the background of the computer. So having the program minimized on the taskbar sometimes gets in the way. I would like to be able to minimize my program to the task tray instead. Is there anybody here how knows how this is done and if so would you please tell me?

Thanks

[MartinLiss]

This tip (http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip61.html) will get you started.

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Marty

[Aaron Young]

Add an Invisible Picturebox to your Form and set the ShowInTaskbar Property to False..

Private 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

Private Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, lpData As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Long

Private Const NIF_ICON = &H2
Private Const NIF_MESSAGE = &H1
Private Const NIF_TIP = &H4
Private Const NIM_ADD = &H0
Private Const NIM_DELETE = &H2
Private Const WM_MOUSEMOVE = &H200
Private Const WM_RBUTTONUP = &H205
Private Const WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK = &H203

Private tTrayIcon As NOTIFYICONDATA

Private Sub Form_Load()
With tTrayIcon
.hIcon = Icon
.hwnd = Picture1.hwnd
.szTip = Caption & Chr(0)
.uCallbackMessage = WM_MOUSEMOVE
.uFlags = NIF_ICON Or NIF_MESSAGE Or NIF_TIP
.uID = 1
.cbSize = Len(tTrayIcon)
End With
Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_ADD, tTrayIcon
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Resize()
If WindowState = vbMinimized Then
Hide
WindowState = vbNormal
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_DELETE, tTrayIcon
End Sub

Private Sub Picture1_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
Select Case ScaleX(X, vbTwips, vbPixels)
Case WM_RBUTTONUP
'Used for Displaying a Popup Menu
Case WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK
'Double Click on SysTray Icon to Show Form
Show
End Select
End Sub



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Aaron Young
Analyst Programmer
aarony@redwingsoftware.com
adyoung@win.bright.net


[This message has been edited by Aaron Young (edited 12-09-1999).]