Popup menu WITHOUT originating DDT?

[Clay Clear]

Anybody know how to put an icon in the system tray, then have it
respond to mouse clicks WITHOUT having to set up a calling
dialog first? I've perviewed the "TRAY.BAS" that ships with
PBDLL60, plus I've looked at some source code in the "Source
Code" forum, but they both have calling dialogs. What I want to
do is have the program start at Windows startup with the icon
in the tray WITHOUT a dialog initially appearing, yet still
have the program (via the icon in the system tray) react to
clicks with the mouse buttons, while the mouse pointer is over
the icon in the tray.

[Eric Pearson]

If I remember correctly a sys tray icon requires a parent window. But nobody says that the window has to be visible. Why not just create a hidden window to be the parent of the sys tray icon?

In other words, never do the DIALOG SHOW step. Or create a window using the API.

-- Eric

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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited September 15, 2000).]

[Semen Matusovski]

Guys --
Is it possible to "animate" a text of the tooltip in the system tray w/o replacing this tooltip by own dialog ?
Shell_NotifyIcon %NIM_MODIFY updates an icon, but doesn't want to update the text.

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[Eric Pearson]

Semen --

You can't change tooltip text that is currently visible. (To be clear, you can change it, but the change won't take affect until the tooltip disappears.) %NIM_MODIFY will only affect the tooltip text the next time it is displayed.

-- Eric

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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited September 16, 2000).]

[Semen Matusovski]

Thanks, Eric. I know this fact from experiments.
But probably exist(simple) way to find tooltip's window and to stimulate refresh ?




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