Hiding simple program in system tray?

[VMI]

How difficult is it to hide my program in the system tray? It's not something
that's required, but it'd look to add it since the program will be writing an
ascii file every minute. And it wouldn't too elegant to have it in the
taskbar.

Thanks.

[Siva M]

Will this help?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...rp06102002.asp

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How difficult is it to hide my program in the system tray? It's not
something
that's required, but it'd look to add it since the program will be writing
an
ascii file every minute. And it wouldn't too elegant to have it in the
taskbar.

Thanks.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Use the code below for just that, note that I included both declarations and
code, the code can be inserted in the constructor ( part of it can be
inserted by the designer )
[DllImport("user 32.dll")]
public static extern int SetWindowLong( IntPtr window, int index, int
value);
[DllImport("user 32.dll")]
public static extern int GetWindowLong( IntPtr window, int index);

const int GWL_EXSTYLE = -20;
const int WS_EX_TOOLWINDO W = 0x00000080;
const int WS_EX_APPWINDOW = 0x00040000;

normalIcon = new Icon(this.GetTy pe(),"Normal.ic o");

this.notifyIcon 1 = new System.Windows. Forms.NotifyIco n(this.componen ts);
notifyIcon1.Ico n = normalIcon;

notifyIcon1.Con textMenu = this.contextMen u1;
notifyIcon1.Vis ible = true;

this.WindowStat e = System.Windows. Forms.FormWindo wState.Minimize d;
this.Visible = false;
this.ShowInTask bar = false;
iconTimer.Start ();

int windowStyle = GetWindowLong(H andle, GWL_EXSTYLE);
SetWindowLong(H andle, GWL_EXSTYLE, windowStyle | WS_EX_TOOLWINDO W);

cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation
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How difficult is it to hide my program in the system tray? It's not
something
that's required, but it'd look to add it since the program will be writing
an
ascii file every minute. And it wouldn't too elegant to have it in the
taskbar.

Thanks.

[Ashura]

its relatively simple:
the trick is to set the form.Opacity = 0

1. drag and drop a System.Windows. Forms.NotifyIco n to the form

2. code sample
public class SysTrayForm : System.Windows. Forms.Form
{
public SysTrayForm() {
InitializeCompo nent();
this.Hide();
InitializeTray( );
}

private System.Windows. Forms.NotifyIco n notifyIcon;
private MenuItem[] muItems = new MenuItem[2];

void InitializeTray( ) {
notifyIcon = new System.Windows. Forms.NotifyIco n();
notifyIcon.Icon = this.Icon;
notifyIcon.Text = "Right Click for the menu";
notifyIcon.Visi ble = true;

muItems[0] = new MenuItem("Show" , new EventHandler(ne w
System.EventHan dler(this.Show) ));
muItems[1] = new MenuItem("Exit" , new EventHandler(ne w
System.EventHan dler(this.ExitF orm)));

ContextMenu notifyiconMnu = new ContextMenu(muI tems);
notifyIcon.Cont extMenu = notifyiconMnu;
}

void Show(object sender, System.EventArg s e) {
//show some form here, but NOT this one
}

void ExitForm(object sender, System.EventArg s e) {
notifyIcon.Visi ble = false;
this.Close();
Application.Exi t();
}
}