Re: How popup window from icon in system tray?
From: Gary Chanson (gchanson_at_No.Spam.TheWorld.net)
Date: 09/23/04
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:17:53 -0400
"Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@sc3.net> wrote in message
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> I'm writing an app that is happily displaying itself as an icon in the
> system tray. Now, when certain events happen in the system, my app needs
to
> pop up a little window right above the system tray, telling the user some
> information.
>
> With later versions of Shell.Dll, there are some cool balloon things that
I
> can do. However, this app may be installed on some pretty old systems, so
> I'd rather find a way to do this that didn't depend on updating shell.dll.
>
> I can display a modeless dialog, problem there is that I have no idea
where
> on the screen my little icon is being displayed (from a program point of
> view).
I think you should be able to find the system tray area of the taskbar
but not the location of individual icons within it. As far as I know, there
is no API (at least in older systems) for this.
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