Notification area

[KVERMEE]

Hi

I have an external application running in the background.
When it starts it, adds an icon to the notification area (system tray).
The application monitors some things and show messages.
The icon will start to blink if there is a new messages, so the user
can double click the icon and the main window with the messages is
shown.

The problem is that this application runs on a production machine on
which all statusbars are made inaccessible to the user.

I thought of writing an application or script that pops up the
application.

I already found out that the process running in the background doesn't have a
window handle.

Anybody knows a way how to do this...

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

Hi,

It seems that you have the bar hidden, what if when a message arrive you
either show the main window without user intervention, or otherwise create
another small window that indicate that a new message arrived.

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

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Hi

I have an external application running in the background.
When it starts it, adds an icon to the notification area (system tray).
The application monitors some things and show messages.
The icon will start to blink if there is a new messages, so the user
can double click the icon and the main window with the messages is
shown.

The problem is that this application runs on a production machine on
which all statusbars are made inaccessible to the user.

I thought of writing an application or script that pops up the
application.

I already found out that the process running in the background doesn't
have a
window handle.

Anybody knows a way how to do this...