Minimizing app to system tray with Win32

no-reply@allegro.cc (slippnslide) — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:42:04 +0000

Could anyone provide me with a link or an example of a Win32 application that you can minimize to the system tray? Everything I've found requires MFC or it's for Visual Studio 2003 and it doesn't seem to work in Visual Studio 2005. Also, it needs to be in either C or C++.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Archon) — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:35:18 +0000

Look in MSDN.

no-reply@allegro.cc (_Dante) — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:52:18 +0000

Specifically, look up Shell_NotifyIcon().

no-reply@allegro.cc (A J) — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:31:51 +0000

1NOTIFYICONDATA nid;
2nid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
3nid.hWnd = win_get_window();
4nid.uID = 0;
5nid.uFlags = NIF_ICON | NIF_TIP;
6nid.uCallbackMessage = 0;
7char tmp[256];
8get_executable_name(tmp, 256);
9HMODULE hMod = GetModuleHandle(tmp);
10if ( NULL == hMod )
11  log << "failed to  GetModuleHandle() ";
12else
13{
14  HICON hIco = LoadIcon( hMod, "ALLEGRO_ICON");
15  if ( NULL == hIco )
16    log << "failed to  LoadIcon()";
17  else
18  {
19    nid.hIcon = hIco;
20    strncpy( nid.szTip, "Your app Name", 64 );
21    if ( false == Shell_NotifyIcon( NIM_ADD, &nid ))
22      log << "failed to  Shell_NotifyIcon()";
23  }
24}

no-reply@allegro.cc (slippnslide) — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:14:20 +0000

Great, thanks A J. Hopefully between a few Win32 tutorials I finally found and what you gave me, this will work.

1	NOTIFYICONDATA nid;
2	nid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
3	nid.hWnd = win_get_window();
4	nid.uID = 0;
5	nid.uFlags = NIF_ICON \| NIF_TIP;
6	nid.uCallbackMessage = 0;
7	char tmp[256];
8	get_executable_name(tmp, 256);
9	HMODULE hMod = GetModuleHandle(tmp);
10	if ( NULL == hMod )
11	log << "failed to GetModuleHandle() ";
12	else
13	{
14	HICON hIco = LoadIcon( hMod, "ALLEGRO_ICON");
15	if ( NULL == hIco )
16	log << "failed to LoadIcon()";
17	else
18	{
19	nid.hIcon = hIco;
20	strncpy( nid.szTip, "Your app Name", 64 );
21	if ( false == Shell_NotifyIcon( NIM_ADD, &nid ))
22	log << "failed to Shell_NotifyIcon()";
23	}
24	}