Notify Icon

[3dmaker]

I am guessing you are supposed to use the NotifyIcon as a icon in the system tray. So I set mine to when it is double clicked

Dim que As New Form1
        If que.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then
            que.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized
        End If

All that code does is add another icon in the tray. Nothing more. How do I fix?

[tylerm]

First of all theres a topic related to this which was created yesterday.

Heres how you set up the icon:
que.Show
que.Windowstate = Minimized
que.Hide
Set the Icon

Now you should have a new form which instantly minimizes and hides thus you cant ALT+Tab to the new form.


To access the form I would put a ContextMenu

[Phill64]

*cough* *cough*

Dim que As New Form1

what's that doing there
you do realise the "new" keyword means you are creating a "new" form of type Form1... not the existing one.

all you need to do is drag&drop a notify icon onto your form and on the doubleclick event add "Me.Show"

I also recommend you read about using forms in .NET http://www.devcity.net/Articles/94/1/multipleforms.aspx