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Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Create a Dialog based application and add a menu.

First you need to declare some variables in the the header file of your Dialog.

Code: CPP

#define MYWM_NOTIFYICON (WM_USER+1)
  //User defined messages. 
  
  CMenu m_TrayMenu;
  //Displaying menu when right clicked on the system tray. Should be inside the class definition
  
  NOTIFYICONDATA tnd;
  //Icon Data
  
  afx_msg LRESULT onTrayNotify(WPARAM, LPARAM);
  //Function to handle the user messages

Now put the following code in the OnInitDialog function

Code: CPP

CString sTip(_T("Hello System Tray")); 
  
  tnd.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
  tnd.hWnd = this->GetSafeHwnd();;
  tnd.uID = IDR_MAINFRAME;
  //ICON RESOURCE ID
  tnd.uFlags = NIF_MESSAGE|NIF_ICON;
  tnd.uCallbackMessage = MYWM_NOTIFYICON;
  tnd.uFlags = NIF_MESSAGE|NIF_ICON|NIF_TIP; 
  tnd.hIcon = LoadIcon(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE (IDR_MAINFRAME));
  //ICON RESOURCE ID
  lstrcpyn(tnd.szTip, (LPCTSTR)sTip, sizeof(tnd.szTip));
  
  DWORD dwMessage = NIM_ADD;
  Shell_NotifyIcon(dwMessage, &tnd);    
  
  m_TrayMenu.LoadMenu(IDR_MENU);
  //MENU RESOURCE ID.

Add user-defined message handler

Code: CPP

ON_MESSAGE(MYWM_NOTIFYICON,onTrayNotify)

Now define the body of onTrayNotify as follows

Code: CPP

LRESULT CWallpaperDlg::onTrayNotify(WPARAM wParam,LPARAM lParam)
  {
    UINT uMsg = (UINT) lParam; 
    switch (uMsg ) 
    { 
    case WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK:
    this->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
    break;
    case WM_RBUTTONUP:
    CPoint pt;    
    GetCursorPos(&pt);
    m_TrayMenu.GetSubMenu(0)->TrackPopupMenu(TPM_RIGHTALIGN|TPM_LEFTBUTTON|TPM_RIGHTBUTTON,pt.x,pt.y,this);
    break;
    } 
    return TRUE;
  }

Now if you want to add the functionality that whenever someone hits the cross it should be minimized to the system tray then add the WM_CLOSE event handler and remove the call to the CDialog::OnClose(); and add the following code.

Code: CPP

ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);

Now in the WM_DESTROY message of the dialog add the following lines to delete the icon from the system tray and clean up the tray.

Code: CPP

Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_DELETE,&tnd);

The sample application has been done in VC++ 7.1 compiler and if you wish to transfer that and view them in older version 7.0 then you need to do the following

Quote:

1. In SLN files, the 8.0 must be replaced with 7.0.
2. In vcproj files (and only vcproj), the 7.10 part must be replaced by 7.0.

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

One more thing...

Don't forget to define
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
before including "windows.h" file.

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Quote:

Originally Posted by AhmedHan

One more thing...

Don't forget to define
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
before including "windows.h" file.

can u tell me why is this done as i am new to VC++

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Quote:

Originally Posted by sanjoy.saha@hcl.in

can u tell me why is this done as i am new to VC++

Because some of the features of API functions and structures are defined for specific Windows versions or highers.

For example :

Code:

        //shellapi.h

            typedef struct _NOTIFYICONDATAA {

            DWORD cbSize;

            HWND hWnd;

            UINT uID;

            UINT uFlags;

            UINT uCallbackMessage;

            HICON hIcon;

    #if _WIN32_IE >= 0x0500

            CHAR szTip[128];

            DWORD dwState;

            DWORD dwStateMask;

            CHAR szInfo[256];

            _ANONYMOUS_UNION union {

                    UINT uTimeout;

                    UINT uVersion;

            } DUMMYUNIONNAME;

            CHAR szInfoTitle[64];

            DWORD dwInfoFlags;

    #else

            CHAR szTip[64];

    #endif

    #if _WIN32_IE >= 0x600

            GUID guidItem;

    #endif

    } NOTIFYICONDATAA,*PNOTIFYICONDATAA;

As you see, as the constant _WIN32_IE has higher values, higher features are enabled.
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From MSDN :

Code:

Windows Server 2003 family            _WIN32_WINNT>=0x0502

  Windows XP                            _WIN32_WINNT>=0x0501

  Windows 2000                        _WIN32_WINNT>=0x0500

  Windows NT 4.0                        _WIN32_WINNT>=0x0400

  Windows Me                            _WIN32_WINDOWS=0x0490

  Windows 98                            _WIN32_WINDOWS>=0x0410

  Internet Explorer 6.0                _WIN32_IE>=0x0600

  Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5            _WIN32_IE>=0x0501

  Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.0a, 5.0b    _WIN32_IE>=0x0500

  Internet Explorer 4.01                _WIN32_IE>=0x0401

  Internet Explorer 4.0                _WIN32_IE>=0x0400

  Internet Explorer 3.0, 3.01, 3.02    _WIN32_IE>=0x0300

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Hi,

i did this application in VC++6.0, but i want to display the balloon tool tips for my system tray icon, i know how to do this. when i'm working in version 6.0 its giving errors as

error C2039: 'uTimeout' : is not a member of '_NOTIFYICONDATAA'
error C2039: 'dwInfoFlags' : is not a member of '_NOTIFYICONDATAA'
erro C2039: 'szInfo' : is not a member of '_NOTIFYICONDATAA'
.....
....

but when i did the another application application for system tray icon in VC++.Net then it runs perfectly and the system tray icons shows the balloon tips.

i know its due to the shellapi.h version with respective to the os.
now my question is how can i made VC++6.0 use the latest version of shellapi.h and able to display the balloon tool tips in my application.

please help me to solve this.
Thanks in advance.

-Gopinath

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Change the header file path in the project settings.

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Can someone walk me though the part Add user-defined message handler
I am still learning VC and im familiar with the MFC ClassWizard but where do I go from there?

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

im using VC++ 6.0 also

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2MuchRiceMakesMeSick

Can someone walk me though the part Add user-defined message handler
I am still learning VC and im familiar with the MFC ClassWizard but where do I go from there?

You need to add the code in the Message Map. In Dialog based application you will find that in the Dialog cpp file. Find the MESSAGE_MAP there.

Re: Display a System Tray Icon in VC++

Thanks. Now its saying that it cant find m_TrayMenu
I havent defined a Member Variable called m_TrayMenu is obviously why
But I cant because there is no Menu Control IDs in the wizard.
I did add a IDR_MENU1 by right clicking NEW MENU. Why is it not showing up under the MFC Class Wizard? Or am I doing it wrong?

Thanks for the help...