Mini to task bar???

[RoBskEwL]

any one know how to make it do that in vb 5
and how to make the menu
is it an invisible menu that i make for the menu at the task???

[assbeef]

You need to get your terminology straight here.
I think I know what you want, (unlike 32 other people who have viewed this but never replied). When you say Mini (minimized) you mean show your program in the System Tray (beside the Time Display) right? And that menu you speak of is a popup menu when your icon is right clicked ?

[RoBskEwL]

Yea thats exactly wat i'm talking about do you got any codes i could get??? for vb 5 enterprize!

[assbeef]

I can, but i don't know about VB 5, the code works in VB6. Are there any differences in standard code in VB5? Well whatever, i will give you some code to do this. First make a Module with the following code in it:

Option Explicit

Public Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib _
"shell32" Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" _
(ByVal dwMessage As Long, lpData As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Long

Public 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

Public Const NIM_ADD As Long = &H0
Public Const NIM_DELETE As Long = &H2
Public Const NIM_MODIFY As Long = &H1
Public Const NIF_MESSAGE As Long = &H1
Public Const NIF_ICON As Long = &H2
Public Const NIF_TIP As Long = &H4
Public Const WM_LBUTTONDOWN As Long = &H201
Public Const WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK As Long = &H203
Public Const WM_RBUTTONUP As Long = &H205

Public nidIcon As NOTIFYICONDATA

Public Sub IniTrayIcon(MenuForm As Form, TrayIcon As Image, ToolTip As String)
With nidIcon
'add the size of the struct
.cbSize = Len(nidIcon)
'add the handle to the window that the function will send messages to
.hWnd = MenuForm.hWnd
'set up the valid members of the struct
.uFlags = NIF_ICON Or NIF_TIP Or NIF_MESSAGE
'this is the message that will be sent to the hWnd above
.uCallbackMessage = WM_LBUTTONDOWN
'handle to the icon to add to the tray
.hIcon = TrayIcon.Picture.Handle
'tool tip (always add a vbNullChar to the end)
.szTip = ToolTip & vbNullChar
End With
End Sub

Public Sub ModifyTrayIcon(TrayIcon As Image, ToolTip As String)
With nidIcon
'add the size of the struct
.cbSize = Len(nidIcon)
'set up the valid members of the struct
.uFlags = NIF_ICON Or NIF_TIP Or NIF_MESSAGE
'this is the message that will be sent to the hWnd above
.uCallbackMessage = WM_LBUTTONDOWN
'handle to the icon to add to the tray
.hIcon = TrayIcon.Picture.Handle
'tool tip (always add a vbNullChar to the end)
.szTip = ToolTip & vbNullChar
End With
Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_MODIFY, nidIcon
End Sub

Public Sub ShowTrayIcon()
Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_ADD, nidIcon
End Sub

Public Sub HideTrayIcon()
Shell_NotifyIcon NIM_DELETE, nidIcon
End Sub

Now lets say you make a form called frmTrayTest
Put either a picture box or image box on it named whatever you want. (for example purposes lets just call it picIcon, make sure you have a icon loaded into it!) Now, you wanted the icno to show when you minimized that form? First we must Initialize it, put this code in frmTrayTest:

Private Sub Form_Load()
'The following code initializes it
IniTrayIcon(Me, picIcon, "Tray Test Application!")
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Resize()
If Me.WindowsState = 1 Then
'Show icon if minimized
ShowTrayIcon()
Else
'Hide icon otherwise
HideTrayIcon
End If

Now for the right clicking part of your icon. First setup a new popupmenu in the Menu Editor for frmTrayTest (name it TrayMenu, and uncheck the visible option) Add this code to your form:

Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As Single, y As Single)
Select Case CLng(x \ Screen.TwipsPerPixelX)
Case WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK
'if double clicked restore window
Me.WindowState = 0
Case WM_RBUTTONUP
'if right clicked show menu
PopUpMenu TrayMenu
End Select
End Sub


And there you have it! I hope it works for you in VB5.

[ILoveQM]

But I we will have some problem with the menu. When we click on the icon, it will apear a menu but when we click out of the menu, it will not disapear...