Placing your program in the system tray

kamransoomro84 · 03-17-2006, 10:39 AM

Hi. I want to minimize my program to the system tray and remove it from the traskbar in Windows. I'm using Java. How can I do it? Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

rshaw · 03-18-2006, 05:01 PM

moving to programming

kamransoomro84 · 03-19-2006, 12:41 AM

Uh, hello. Anyone?

cs-cam · 03-19-2006, 12:57 AM

This is a Windows question in a linux forum, don't expect a flood of answers because a lot of us don't even run Windows...

I don't know much of Java but I can point you to Mercury and Azureus, both are Java apps, both run under Windows and linux and both have put an icon in the system tray. Maybe check the source for them and see how they do it.

FLLinux · 03-19-2006, 07:14 AM

In windows or i shold say MFC there is a think called SystemNotifyIcon or something like that. You create one of these and attach a menu to it and set some other options and with you mimimize you prgram it will show up on the Systemtray instead of the taskbar. I don't know how Java does it since ths is a Windows specific thing (and it is a pain in the butt to work with). But look for something along those lines

slantoflight · 03-20-2006, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FLLinux

In windows or i shold say MFC there is a think called SystemNotifyIcon or something like that. You create one of these and attach a menu to it and set some other options and with you mimimize you prgram it will show up on the Systemtray instead of the taskbar. I don't know how Java does it since ths is a Windows specific thing (and it is a pain in the butt to work with). But look for something along those lines

Its actually not a purely windows feature. I've seen azureus minimize to a KDE system tray. Andit works for fluxbox box too.
See

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1198/azureus0gv.jpg

I do believe the code maybe as simple one line

SystemTray.getDefaultSystemTray().addTrayIcon(new TrayIcon(new ImageIcon("imagefilename")))

DanTaylor · 03-20-2006, 03:41 PM

How would this be done in KDE???

medya · 04-30-2007, 05:28 AM

there is a program which minimized programs to tray and it works so easily , the program is AllTray

Enjoy !