system tray icons\minimizing forms

don't slate me just yet, im not asking how to put an icon in the system tray.
but.. ive noticed on some programs when they are 'minimized to the system tray' the actual minimize animation points to your system tray; towards the far right of your taskbar instead of where the applications icon button resides on the taskbar. if your lost and have msn, try closing it (so it goes to the system tray) and you'll see what i mean :D
anyway more to the point, i was wondering how you'd achieve this in vb? :) im guessing its with api or is it much simpler?
-cheers

do you mean when you would click the close button on a program like kasaa

put the following in a module

VB Code:

'Puts app icon in the system tray
Private Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib "shell32" Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, pnid As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Boolean
 
Public Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function SetParent Lib "user32" (ByVal hWndChild As Long, ByVal hWndNewParent As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetSystemMetrics Lib "user32" (ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
 
 
Private Type NOTIFYICONDATA
    cbSize As Long
    hWnd As Long
    uId As Long
    uFlags As Long
    ucallbackMessage As Long
    hIcon As Long
    szTip As String * 17
End Type
 
 
Private Const NIM_ADD = &H0
Private Const NIM_MODIFY = &H1
Private Const NIM_DELETE = &H2
Private Const WM_MOUSEMOVE = &H200
Private Const NIF_MESSAGE = &H1
Private Const NIF_ICON = &H2
Private Const NIF_TIP = &H4
Private Const WM_LBUTTONDOWN = &H201
Private Const WM_RBUTTONDBLCLK = &H206
Private Const WM_RBUTTONDOWN = &H204
 
Public Const WM_RBUTTONUP = &H205
Public Const WM_LBUTTONUP = &H202
Public Const SM_CXBORDER = 5    'Width of non-sizable borders
Public Const SM_CYBORDER = 6    'Height of non-sizable borders
 
 
Private SysTray As NOTIFYICONDATA
 
Public Sub StartInSysTray(f As Form)
    SysTray.cbSize = Len(SysTray)
    SysTray.hWnd = f.Picture1.hWnd
    SysTray.uId = 1&
    SysTray.uFlags = NIF_ICON Or NIF_TIP Or NIF_MESSAGE
    SysTray.ucallbackMessage = WM_MOUSEMOVE
    'change the below line to the desired icon
    SysTray.hIcon = f.Icon
    SysTray.szTip = Left$(App.Title, Len(App.Title))
    Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_ADD, SysTray
End Sub
 
Public Sub RemoveFromSysTray(f As Form)
    'Remove the icon from the system tray
    SysTray.cbSize = Len(SysTray)
    SysTray.hWnd = f.Picture1.hWnd
    SysTray.uId = 1&
    Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_DELETE, SysTray
End Sub

put the following in the form

VB Code:

Private Sub Picture1_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As Single, y As Single)
    Dim lRet As Long
    Dim lBut As Long
    Dim i As Integer
    
    'Get position of pointer.
    lBut = x / Screen.TwipsPerPixelX
    
    
    'Determine which mouse button clicked.
    If lBut = WM_RBUTTONUP Then
        'If right button determine if the app is visible.
        If Me.Visible Then
            'If the app is visible hide the restore option
            With mnuFileSub
                For i = .LBound To .UBound
                    If .Item(i).Caption = "&Restore" Then
                        .Item(i).Visible = False
                    Else
                        .Item(i).Visible = True
                    End If
                Next i
            End With
        Else
            'If the app isn't visible show the restore option.
            With mnuFileSub
                For i = .LBound To .UBound
                    Select Case .Item(i).Caption
                        Case "&Restore"
                            .Item(i).Visible = True
                        Case "&Quit"
                            .Item(i).Visible = True
                        Case "&About"
                            .Item(i).Visible = True
                    End Select
                Next i
            End With
        End If
        'Following API call is used for it mouse pointer is not
        'over the icon in the system tray and the popup menu is
        'displayed so that it will be hidden if the pointer is
        'clicked anywhere else.
        lRet = SetForegroundWindow(Me.hWnd)
        
        'Display the popup menu for restoring or
        'ending the app.
        PopupMenu mnuFile
    ElseIf lBut = WM_LBUTTONUP Then
        'If a singl left mouse button click restore
        'the app.
        Call mnuFileSub_Click(1)
    End If
End Sub
 
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
    'Set to one so form can't close until bClose is True.
    Cancel = 1
    
    If bClose Then
        'Remove the icon from the system tray.
        Call RemoveFromSysTray(Me)
        'Set to zero to end the app.
        Cancel = 0
        'Re-allocate memory.
        Set frmRefresher = Nothing
    Else
        Me.WindowState = vbMinimized
        DoEvents
        'If the close button (X) is pressed.
        Me.Hide
        bClose = False
        Exit Sub
    End If
End Sub
 
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
    'Put icon in system tray.
    Call StartInSysTray(Me)
End Sub

hope this helps

if you would like you can go to this thread i made two days ago and download that code and program that is there and take a look at to get an ideahttp://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=245058

cheers m8, but ive already got an icon in the system tray.
its when you minimize a window the menubar of the window actually floats down to the taskbar and on some programs it floats down towards the far right of the taskbar > over the system tray. i dont think you know what i mean lol, tis hard to explain

I think i got what u mean.
Well, what you're trying to do cannot be done in VB. I mean you cannot point the minimize animation to the tray. On the other hand, this is what you can do:

In the tray code, you'll find somewhere something like:

form1.WindowState = vbMinimized
form1.Hide or form1.Visible = False

Then elsewhere:

form1.Show or form1.Visible = True
form1.WindowState = vbNormal or vbMaximized.

Try removing the the (form1.WindowState = vbMinimized) and the (form1.WindowState = vbNormal or vbMaximized) statements.
This may sometimes cause a focus problem with the form. If so, use this code when showing it out of the tray:
form1.Show
form1.SetFocus

Well, this is what i do when i don't want animation into the taskbar. It's the minimze action that's casuing it.
And by the way, as far as MSN, i think they're using the same approach, because i didn't notice any animation at all (this is what the code i proposed do, it cancels the animation part).

HTH :)

Virus, in your vb code, in the Form_Unload event, when is bClose set to True? Or is it never gonna be set to true?

And is calling the DoEvents() function really needeD?