Tray

Description

Short story: Add your application's icon to the taskbar's notification tray (systray) properly. Updated for VB6 with native subclassing.

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Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module Library Function
Tray.bas kernel32
shell32
user32

GetVersionEx
Shell_NotifyIcon
PostMessage
RegisterWindowMessage
SetForegroundWindow

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Download

Download Tray.zip   Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution.

Download Tray.zip, 24Kb, Last Updated: Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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