Re: [ProgSoc] Min. VB application to system tray

["Cuong Huy Nguyen" <chnguyen@nospam.tig.com.au>]

Thanks heaps mate, Don't worry about forgetting this. I'll keep reminding
you until you send me the code hehehe.
I tried the one on the web but as you said, it's not very friendly.

AWAITING FOR YOUR LOVELY FRIENDLY PIECE OF CODE.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Bewsher <heatwave@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>
To: progsoc@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au <progsoc@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>
Date: Wednesday, 31 March 1999 23:45
Subject: Re: [ProgSoc] Min. VB application to system tray


>Hi,
>
>From: Cuong Nguyen <chnguyen_au@nospam.yahoo.com>:
>
>>Does anyone know how, in VB, to instruct the form to be
>>minimized into the system tray (where the Clock and
>>Volume thingies are) instead of iconising it to the
>>task bar?
>
>
>You don't minimize a form into the tray.  The tray is just an icon that you
>can get feedback from.
>The tray ocx that James Wright sent (if it's the same as the one I once
>used) has too much overhead to much practical use.
>The code that Bhargava Rahul (hul) sent at
>http://www.dondada.com/icondock.html is the same as on the MSDN cd.  It's
>what I worked from, but it's not very friendly.
>I have written a VB 5 class that allows you to add an icon to the tray,
>change it's tooltip, change the icon, and remove the icon.  It also allows
>you to set up a callback function so that you can get mouse events form the
>icon.
>
>Ok, that's the good news.  The bad news is that I don't have it on this
>computer (-8  I'll send it as soon as I can (if I remember) otherwise, you
>could try to write your own from the code on the above web page.  It's
>pretty simple, it took me about 2:30 hours.
>
>>Also, does anyone remember/know what the program on the
>>Progsoc's Mug is supposed to be doing?
>
>
>It's Perl.  It prints ProcSoc vertically down the screen in big letters.
>
>heatWave
>
>
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