Take a look at this blog entry: REFRESHING THE TASKBAR NOTIFICATION AREA. I am using this code to refresh the system tray to get rid of orphaned icons and it works perfectly. The blog entry is very informative and gives a great explanation of the steps the author performed to discover his solution. #define FW(x,y) … Read more
First, add a NotifyIcon control to the Form. Then wire up the Notify Icon to do what you want. If you want it to hide to tray on minimize, try this. Private Sub frmMain_Resize(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Resize If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then Me.ShowInTaskbar = False Else Me.ShowInTaskbar = True … Read more
Wrap the code in the actionListener which calls back to JavaFX in Platform.runLater. This will execute the code which interfaces with the JavaFX system on the JavaFX application thread rather than trying to do it on the Swing event thread (which is what is causing you issues). For example: ActionListener listenerTray = new ActionListener() { … Read more
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.png’ def create_menu_item(menu, label, func): item = wx.MenuItem(menu, -1, label) menu.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, func, id=item.GetId()) menu.AppendItem(item) return item class TaskBarIcon(wx.TaskBarIcon): def __init__(self): super(TaskBarIcon, self).__init__() self.set_icon(TRAY_ICON) self.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DOWN, self.on_left_down) def … Read more
The right way to do this is to prevent the form from getting visible in the first place. That requires overriding SetVisibleCore(). Let’s assume a context menu for the NotifyIcon with a Show and Exit command. You can implement it like this: public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); notifyIcon1.ContextMenuStrip = … Read more