Those little icons next to your clock.

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sswift (Posted 2004) [#1]

I was wondering what those are called, and if Blitzplus can create them so it can work in the background without taking up space on the taskbar, yet still remain accessable.

aCiD2 (Posted 2004) [#2]

heh, they are called system tray icons, and i dont think blitz+ can nativly create them. however - there is a userlib over at blitzcoder i think that can create them. hope that helps

Kev (Posted 2004) [#3]

sswift http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pamela.poole/TaskBar.zip if you want the .dll source let me now. kev

dan_upright (Posted 2004) [#4]

you don't need a dll to do this, just add "Shell_NotifyIconA" to a userlib for shell32.dll see here for details on how to use it =]

sswift (Posted 2004) [#5]

Hey Dan, where do you get your info? I'd like to know all the funcitons that are in that dll. I'm sure microsoft must have the info on their knwoeldge base page somewhere but I don't know where exactly.

soja (Posted 2004) [#6]

Go to MSDN -> User Interface -> Windows Shell and Common Controls -> SDK Documentation -> Windows Shell -> Shell Reference -> Shell Functions. Also, it's easy to get a list of the exported functions from a DLL. I use dumpbin.exe, which is included with VC++, but I'm sure there must be an alternative out there. Also check out allapi.net.