any expert on system tray icon ..
i m facing a problem with my system tray.it is working on all aspects but a single problem is that when i take mouse to tray icon for doing some action , then just on mouse over my mail application window ( for what icon is there ) comes/popup up.
it should come on double click but just on mouse move it popup up.i m using shellnotify API function with NOTIFYICON data structure.i m pasing my code down here. i just took help for this code also , so dont have proper idea of it ... i m putting my comment like * my comment * where i have doubt .pls let me know fi some thing wrong at any place ....
put one image box(imgicon) and one picture box(pichook) on a form and try this code and see on just mousemove form comes up.
here is my code :
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' In Declaration :
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 Type CREATESTRUCT
lpCreateParams As Long
hInstance As Long
hMenu As Long
hWndParent As Long
cy As Long
cx As Long
Y As Long
X As Long
style As Long
lpszName As String
lpszClass As String
ExStyle As Long
End Type
Private Const NIM_ADD = &H0
Private Const NIM_MODIFY = &H1
Private Const NIM_DELETE = &H2
Private Const NIF_MESSAGE = &H1
Private Const NIF_ICON = &H2
Private Const NIF_TIP = &H4
Private Const WM_LBUTTONDOWN = &H201
Private Const WM_RBUTTONDOWN = &H204
Private Const WM_RBUTTONUP = &H205
Private Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib "shell32" Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, pnid As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Boolean
Dim TrayI As NOTIFYICONDATA
' In Form Load
TrayI.cbSize = Len(TrayI)
TrayI.hwnd = pichook.hwnd 'Link the trayicon to this picturebox
TrayI.uId = 1&
TrayI.uFlags = NIF_ICON Or NIF_TIP Or NIF_MESSAGE
TrayI.uCallbackMessage = WM_LBUTTONDOWN
TrayI.hIcon = imgicon.Picture
TrayI.szTip = "Switch Notes" & Chr$(0)
'Create the icon
Me.Icon = imgicon.Picture
Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_ADD, TrayI
' i am having one imagebox(imgicon) and one picturebox ( pichook ) and taking imgicon's picture for picture box and using piturebox handle for tray icon's handle.
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thanks
