Icon in system tray problem

[bucko]

Hi, I have a program, that when minimised runs in the system tray. Everything appears to work ok, until I quit the program. The icon for the program still sits in the system tray until i move the mouse over it, then it goes.

how can i get the icon to disappear as soon as the program is terminated.

thanks in advance
MICK

[Candu]

I have the same problem and I implemented the following solution. I have a dummy form that holds the icon that is displayed in the tray and when I unload the form from memory and then execute a DoEvents followed by the End statement explicitly my icon goes away properly. However if I do not use the End statement to terminate the program I have the same problem as you are now experincing.

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David L. Baudais
Systems Analyst

[Eclipse DevSoft]

If you wrote your own code to display the icon in the systray, then you must explicitly destroy the icon you created by using the parameter 'NIM_DELETE' (&H2) for the Shell_NotifyIcon API. If you're using a control or some dll, then I must say, the author of the program should know better, you can't do much about it since the icon is controled by that app and not you. If you need a Tray control, I have one in my page
www.geocities.com/eclipseds (http://www.geocities.com/eclipseds)


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