Other System Tray Icons Question!...

I was wondering if it were possible to remove the icons from Other programs in the system tray?

How would i go about this?

For example with Hamachi, it's a useful program and all that, but the icon does get annoying down there, especially if there's alot of other icons. Would it be possible to remove the icon so that you'd have to open it again to display Hamachi (This is why i want to make this application).

I was thinking about this and would getting the hWnd of Hamachi & removing the icon as you would when you are removing your own program.

Would this possibly work? I cannot test this at the moment.

Also how would one get the hWnd of Hamachi (since it's hidden).

This is a general question, but the program is being made for Hamachi.

Is someone going to help?


Here's the code that i got so far:

vb Code:

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib "shell32" Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, pnid As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Boolean
 
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 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_LBUTTONDBLCLK = &H203
Private Const WM_LBUTTONDOWN = &H201
Private Const WM_RBUTTONUP = &H205
 
Dim TrayI As NOTIFYICONDATA
 
Private Sub CmdFind_Click()
 
hWndTxt.Text = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Hamachi")
 
Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_ADD, TrayI
 
End Sub
 
Private Sub CmdHide_Click()
 
    TrayI.cbSize = Len(TrayI)
    TrayI.hWnd = hWndTxt.Text
    TrayI.uId = 1&
    Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_DELETE, TrayI
 
 
End Sub

The problem is that the Icon keeps comming back now (for some reason). Is there some way to stop this?

maybe a timer can do this. I mean if the Icon comes back every continually, the timer can execute the Sub you've written (for example) every 4 or 5 seconds

Yes, but the icon will appear up & then vanish (which is annoying & using system resources).

i was also trying to do something similar but instead of removing the system tray icons i was trying to restore the application by double clicking the icon. however, i can't find the window since it is hidden into the tray. also, i'm thinking ahead of myself but if i can manage to actually find the icon, what if i have 2 instances of it running?

can anyone shed some light on this?

Tricky stuff. Maybe try subclassing the program and stopping all outgoing tray icon messages. Also, have you looked into all the option in the program? Most programs allow you to turn off the tray icon.

A non VB way - right click the task bar, then click properties. Check 'hide inactive icons' and under 'Customize...' find the icon you don't want and set it to be always hidden. :cool: