I am making my own taskbar which will replace the default windows one. How do I get a list of everything that is in the system tray (notification area)?
FindWindow with the classname Shell_TrayWnd can get you this information. Here are two sample C++ projects
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/gigo/311/winprog/shellico.txt
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/ShellTrayInfo.aspx
If you are trying to create an icon in the notification area (usually near the clock in the taskbar), see the NotifyIcon class. The docs have an example for creating a notification icon with a context menu.
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I'm making a desktop mascot with unity, and I do not want to see the icon appearing on the task bar, I want the icon in the system tray. Is there a way to do this?
PS: This is NOT a windows form (it's a game), so I believe Form.ShowInTaskbar will not work.
I've never programmed in Unity, but I'm assuming you are working in a Windows window. If you make the top level window for the application not appear in the main area of the Taskbar, make the window a "Tool Window" (by setting the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW extended style on the window), then the window/app will not show up on the taskbar.
I'll leave it to someone how knows enough Unity to tell you how to set that style. Here's a reference to start with (on the Windows side, not the Unity side): Managing Taskbar Buttons
I'm working on a project and we'd like to add a notification count the way skype does.
A number pops near the icon in the windows taskbar to indicate how many messages the user have received.
This is the result we're trying to achieve: http://it.tinypic.com/r/2guclkk/8
Looking around the internet haven't led to anything, so is there any API I can use in C# to achieve this?
I solved using the WindowsAPICodePack: Windows API Code Pack: Where is it?
The method is SetIconOverlay():
public void SetOverlayIcon(IntPtr windowHandle, Icon icon, string accessibilityText);
If you want that in taskbar, you might want to use overlay icons, which are described here, if you are using WPF: How to add dynamic text as Taskbar Icon overlay?
If you are using Forms you might want to use this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.shell.taskbariteminfo.overlay%28v=vs.100%29.aspx
If you want to do the same in system tray, it is a duplicit question: How can I overlay system-tray icon ? WPF, and the answer is probably to draw the desired number at runtime to the icon and change the system tray icon.
I have my own C# ToolStrip application (TaskBar) and I would like to put differents items on its System Tray by NotifyIcon.
But the problem is I can not successfully create a System Tray into this ToolStrip.
I can see my NotifyIcon going directly into System Tray of Windows TaskBar but I want to see them on my ToolStrip.
I don't find (even with Googling) any object like a System Tray in C#...
So, my questions are : how we can create a System Tray and attach it to new ToolStrip ? And if I missed a point ?
Thanks in advance for all answers and if I missed precision or if you want specific code (I think it wasn't necessary in my case), please ask me.
The answer is : SplitContainer.
With this, I can have a taskbar and a systray in my application.
I've created a system tray application using c#. And it is running successfully. Now the problem is, a notification window that has to be popped up when a particular event occurs(Not with a new icon but for the same icon which present in the notification area). The notification should last for few seconds and the notification area icon's colour should be changed till the window disappears.
Please suggest solutions. Thanks for helping!!!
If you use the class NotifyIcon you can set the Icon property:
notifyIcon.Icon = <Some Icon> (ex. Properties.Resources.IconRed, if in your resources).
I am trying to create a C# application that runs in tray where I can drop files on it's icon.
Is there any way to get the path of the file dropped on the System Tray icon? System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon does not have any events related to drag and drop.
it's not possible to do this, the easy way.
You can show a dummy Form, if the cursor is in a special area near the notifyicon.
The dummy Form can get the filepath of the droped file.
It has az example, but it's not fully and written in C++ :(
DragnDropOnTrayIcon
It actually is possible to do with a slightly hacky method. Fluffy App does this for its file uploader. It uses Spifftastic which uses a pretty neat little method to identify the location of the tray icon. Then a transparent window is placed over the location of the icon and used as the actual drop target, but to the end user it all appears to be dropping the file on the icon.