systray

I'm trying to show a popup menu when right clicking my Notification Icon, which works fine; But I want the menu to disappear when the user clicks outside of that menu. It's supposedly by design as per KB135788 - PRB: Menus for Notification Icons Do Not Work Correctly ( archive ) . But no decent app I know of behaves like this. I've tried calling SetForegroundWindow using the popup menu's handle to no avail. I'm sure it's possible to work around this, as I've done it years ago but don't remember how. Anyone know how to achieve the expected behaviour? I've found a solution! I was calling

How can I show a systray tooltip longer than 63 chars? NotifyIcon.Text has a 63 chars limit, but I've seen that VNC Server has a longer tooltip. How can I do what VNC Server does? Actually, it is a bug in the property setter for the Text property. The P/Invoke declaration for NOTIFYICONDATA inside Windows Forms uses the 128 char limit. You can hack around it with Reflection: using System; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Reflection; public class Fixes { public static void SetNotifyIconText(NotifyIcon ni, string text) { if (text.Length >= 128) throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("Text

This problem has been afflicting me for quite a while and it's been really annoying. Every time I login after a reboot/power cycle the explorer takes some time to show up. I've taken the step of waiting for all the services to boot up and then I login, but it doesn't make any difference. The result is always the same: Some of the icons do not show up even if the applications have started. I've dug a bit on the code that makes one application "stick" an icon in there, but is there an API call that one can perform so explorer re-reads all that icon info? Like invalidate or redraw or something of

I'd just need a quick example on how to easily put an icon with python on my systray. This means: I run the program, no window shows up, just a tray icon (I've got a png file) shows up in the systray and when I right-click on it a menu appears with some options (and when I click on an option, a function is run). Is that possible? I don't need any window at all... Examples / code snippets are REALLY appreciated! :D FogleBird For Windows & Gnome Here ya go! wxPython is the bomb. Adapted from the source of my Feed Notifier application. import wx TRAY_TOOLTIP = 'System Tray Demo' TRAY_ICON = 'icon

I've successfully created an app that minimizes to the tray using a NotifyIcon. When the form is manually closed it is successfully hidden from the desktop, taskbar, and alt-tab. The problem occurs when trying to start with the app minimized. At first the problem was that the app would be minimized but would still appear in the alt-tab dialog. Changing the FormBorderStyle to one of the ToolWindow options (from the "None" option) fixed this, but introduced another problem. When the app first starts the titlebar of the minimized window is visible just above the start menu: Opening the form and