Tray Icon(urgent)

Hi!
I need to make a tray icon for my program.
How can i do that (please do not tell me to learn C#, cuz i know that its easy to do there, but i need to make it in C++)

Can anyone please help me?! Id like this icon to appear when i start the program... then that icon is supposed to open my programs window if it was minimized.

Please help! MSDN didnt help

Have a look at the Shell_NotifyIcon function and all its associated functions in MSDN.

This should give you enough information to go on.

I'm pretty sure there are going to be loads of resources in the articles of CodeGuru as well as The Code Project to tell you how to do this.

Don't worry, it's not hard.

Darwen.

Thanks alot!
I hope you are right...

God, i love this forums -- lots of smart people :D;)

I think i found it...

Code:

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NOTIFYICONDATA not;
not.cbSize =sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
not.hIcon=AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDR_MAINFRAME);
not.hWnd =this->m_hWnd ;
  strcpy(not.szTip ,"iChat Standard");
not.uCallbackMessage=ID_TRAY;
not.uFlags =NIF_ICON|NIF_MESSAGE|NIF_TIP;
not.uID =1;
  Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD ,&not);

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Where do i put it?

If I remember correctly you need to elect a window to receive events which happen to your icon : e.g. left mouse button down, up etc etc.

So it therefore follows that the sensible place to put this code is in the WM_CREATE handler (OnCreate) for whichever window you want to handle the events. It could be the mainframe of your application for instance.

Darwen.

Yapp...that worked....
Id iserted it to the IniiInstanse part of my dialogs cpp...
even thou now a bit harder thing--making the window appear on a double-click and disappear on the second double click... i saw 1 article... but somehow i didnt really understand it... maybe you can help me? or someone else?

ShowWindow(SW_SHOW) will show the window appropriately.

If you're proposing to have a menu pop up because of a mouse click its really important that you call SetForegroundWindow before the TrackPopupMenu otherwise it'll not work properly.

This foxed me for a while if I remember.

Darwen.

I ment just a double click on an icon to show the window and a double click to hide it....

But im not sure how to write that code... im a newbie and im not really good with it....
Can you please help me with that code? I used the icon code here:

Code:

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BOOL CFavoritesDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
        CDialog::OnInitDialog();
                // Add "About..." menu item to system menu.

        // IDM_ABOUTBOX must be in the system command range.
        ASSERT((IDM_ABOUTBOX & 0xFFF0) == IDM_ABOUTBOX);
        ASSERT(IDM_ABOUTBOX < 0xF000);
//Starting the "Homepage"
        m_browser.Navigate("http://www.malakapower.com:112/pgrms/mf/", 0, 0, 0, 0);
               
  // handle to icon
    HICON hIcon;
  // text for tool tip
    char lpszTip[] = "Malaka Favorites v1.0a BETA";

    HINSTANCE hInst =
        AfxFindResourceHandle(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MAINFRAME),
                              RT_GROUP_ICON);
    hIcon = (HICON)LoadImage( hInst,
                              MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MAINFRAME),
                              IMAGE_ICON,
                              16,
                              16,
                              LR_DEFAULTCOLOR);
   
  // set NOTIFYCONDATA structure

    NOTIFYICONDATA tnid;

    tnid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
    tnid.hWnd = m_hWnd;
    tnid.uID = IDR_MAINFRAME;
    tnid.uFlags = NIF_MESSAGE | NIF_ICON | NIF_TIP;
    tnid.hIcon = hIcon;

    if (lpszTip)
        lstrcpyn(tnid.szTip, lpszTip, sizeof(tnid.szTip));
    else
        tnid.szTip[0] = '\0';

  // call to Shell_NotifyIcon with NIM_ADD parameter

    Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &tnid);
 
  // free icon

    if (hIcon)
    DestroyIcon(hIcon);
//End of Icon initialization

        CMenu* pSysMenu = GetSystemMenu(FALSE);
        if (pSysMenu != NULL)
        {
                CString strAboutMenu;
                strAboutMenu.LoadString(IDS_ABOUTBOX);
                if (!strAboutMenu.IsEmpty())
                {
                        pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF_SEPARATOR);
                        pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF_STRING, IDM_ABOUTBOX, strAboutMenu);
                }
        }

        // Set the icon for this dialog.  The framework does this automatically
        //  when the application's main window is not a dialog
        SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE);                        // Set big icon
        SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE);                // Set small icon
       
        // TODO: Add extra initialization here
        return TRUE;  // return TRUE  unless you set the focus to a control
}

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If u can give me the code or atleast a sample or anything like it -- i will be really gratefull :)

I remember seeing an article and a sample code to do this in codeguru, but I do not remeber the link.

Searching the codeguru existing code base may help you.

csheng