Forms :: Access Contextmenu For A System Tray App Started Using Applicationcontext
Jan 10, 2012
I'm having trouble figuring out how to access my system tray context menu from a winforms opened up from one of the menu choices. The task notifier was created using a module and an applicationcontext so I could start the application without a form.
Here is m simplified code.
Module Module1
Public OpenFormsHash As New Hashtable
Public Sub Main()
[Code]....
When I start my form, in this case fSettings, I can't figure out how to get access back to my context menu. I'd like to modify it based on events that happen on the open form (fSettings).
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Aug 27, 2010
how to create a contextmenu for system tray icon vb? Where can I find an example of it? I am building a service with a system tray icon to start pause and stop it however I don't seem to be able to display the contextmenu on click event. Do I need a form for the context menu?
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Jun 4, 2009
how to create the contextmenu near the system tray icon that i've created? the current contextmenu will always "run" to certain position. How to do that? especially the second parameter of the following:
Me.contextMenu1 = New System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu
Me.menuItem1 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Me.menuItem2 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Initialize contextMenu1
[Code]...
Me.contextMenu1.Show(Button1, New Point(0, 0)) .NET not allow the control to be the notifyicon, so i added a button.hOW to make sure that the contextmenu always firm on one position , ie, at the system tray icon that i've created. Once i click on the icon, it will show this contextmenu.
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Feb 16, 2009
I'm wanting to develop what I perceive to be a pretty simple application. I want something that runs in the system tray that tests for the presence of a particular file on a network drive. If the file does not exist, the icon in the system tray is a green circle (like a traffic light).If the file DOES exist, then the system tray icon is a yellow circle (caution), until the user clicks it (the yellow system tray icon), and a record is written to another file, then the system tray icon changes to a red (stop) circle until that first file we tested for is gone.I'd also like to create "balloon messages" to go with the changes in the system tray icon.
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Mar 10, 2010
To hide my application, I want to place the my Application Icon in the System tray & not onthe Task bar ... but I have both with the following codes:
Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized
NotifyIcon1.Visible = False
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Nov 1, 2009
How do catch key event (short cut keys like alt+d,Ctrl+u) when a program running in system tray ?
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Jan 3, 2010
my program has a tray icon and i want it to show up in the system tray. so i went into my windows notification area and set it to show icon for my app. But when my app update to a new version with clickonce, it will think its a new app and i have to set it again. Is there a way that it will treat all new version as the same program and i dont have to keep setting it?
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Feb 11, 2010
I want to listen to events in my windows forms .NET application for the following system wide events :
[Code]...
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Mar 2, 2012
i want to be able to open IE/FireFox/Google and the like, and when i right click in a text box on a webpage i can click my email so that it places the email address straight into the box instead of typing it in. in other words i want to integrate a ContextMenu into the already system context menu. I think i am shooting above my belt but just need a start as to where to start. Ie: Service, Background Worker, Windows Form?
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Oct 5, 2009
I know how to access and play the system sounds using vb.net, and I also know that using the registry to save users' settings isn't ideal, however, The details of my project are rather long and drawn out, so I'll skip most of them Basically my program is loaded onto several computers on our network. The entire purpose of this program is to sound various alarms on different dates and times. Apparently I am to set up the program so that the different alarm sounds can be configured through Windows' control panel.
I can add the program into the appropriate part of the Registry in order to make that happen. The problem is reading the the information back. Under the name of the app, I have four different subkeys, each with the name of one of the alarms. Under those keys are two other subkeys, .default and .current. How do I get the sound from .current to play? For some weird reason I get null returned any time I try to read the key that I created.
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Aug 27, 2008
I'm using VB 2005, and trying to write a console app that (among other things) activates a different program that is in the system tray.
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Jun 23, 2010
I im trying to find out if it's possible (using VB.net 08 Xpress) to create an application running solely out of the system tray, no forms - Just the icon and popup notifications.I have been considering building a tray based monitoring system for some time, and while I can get the code to work fine, I still need the thing to start up silently. Using Me.Hide() on Form load doesn't work, and I really don't want to work around using the start-up form as a splash page.I have also looked at making a module, but standard vb.net code just aint doing the job.
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Mar 22, 2010
I have a problem: I have got an application that is mainly control by a tray icon and I can't show the window unless I click the icon, but the client computer has set the system not to show the icons in the tray area. So can I write a small app to act like a hand-make system tray? That means I have to get all the icons in the tray area and be able to send the mouse events to the icons and let them response to their own program.
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Jun 27, 2009
I have created a program that i want to be able to minimize to the system tray in stead of the task tray... Dose anyone have a code on how to do this?
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May 31, 2008
I've looked all over the internet and did a search on Dreamincode.net but I can't find anything on minimizing to the tray for Vb 2008.What I want to achieve is if the user hits the "X" button at the top, the application should minimize to the tray. When I right-click on the icon, a context menu strip should appear.
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Aug 25, 2009
i only want my app to load in tray if it loads on windows startup.[code]it works any other time, the resize event. just not onload.
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Feb 15, 2011
I'm working on a security type program that has a system tray that starts with windows and a driver to prevent it from being closed. Any ideas where to start?
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Feb 28, 2010
I want a simple .exe's icon in system tray (with an image) and when user right clicks that it should show some options like
1) add two numbers when user clicks this it should open a running form of addition of my exe.
2) negate 2 numbers Same like above but for negation.
I am using VS 2003 framework 1.1
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May 28, 2009
I have an application that uses a NotifyIcon in the tray to hide/restore the application, as well as pop up notices to the user of application events. My application has a notification queue, and I use the NotificationIcon.BalloonTipClosed event to determine when to reset the balloon and show the next notification (if there's one in the queue).
This method seems to work great in both usual causes (user lets the balloon close itself when it times out, and user clicks "X" in balloon to force it to close), but there's a third case where BalloonTipClosed doesn't get called:Notification balloon pops up While it's visible, user right-clicks on notification icon to bring up context menu, causing the balloon to disappear
The BalloonTipClosed event doesn't get triggered in this instance - I figure it's a bug in the framework (I'm using 2.0), but does anybody have an idea around this? If I don't get this event, my application always thinks there's a balloon visible (I have a boolean that prevents it from displaying multiple balloons at once), and it will never show another icon again, as long as it's running.
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Oct 23, 2009
I'm trying to click on an icon that is in the system tray. I'm sure there is API involved,which i'm sure will work. I Was wondering if there's any kind of code already in Visual Basic, that somehow puts them in an array of some sort. Especially with how sometimes windows will only show active icons. Would be a pain to have to click the arrows to show all icons and then find the icon. Which if it's API, would have to be x/y coordinates.Definitely would be different every time.
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Jan 29, 2007
create a program that enums icons of the tray bar that have been created calling the function ShellNotifyIcon. So my question is how do you do to enum the windows that have called this function and want to appear in the system tray, whit its icons, and display a menu when you click on them. because i want to do the same that explorer.exe does but whit my own program (shell). Is this a secret?
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Jul 3, 2009
I have looked on the net for demos of how to display a text message in the system tray, but all I can find are examples which say you need to use trayicons. Where you render your string into a bitmap, and then point the trayicon at the bitmap to display it.
Unfortunately this is no good for what I want to do, the trayicon is limited to only 16x16 pixels, and I want to display a longer message, which will just not fit. I can't resize the size of the icon, and if I make the source bitmap larger, it just gets scaled to fit within the 16x16 space (crushing it together into an awful mess)
So I tried using an array of trayicons and split the bitmap between them, but this also fails, because windows inserts about 3-4 pixels of padding between each tray icon.
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Feb 20, 2010
I'm posting this here since it took a lot of time for me to understand how the whole thing works when trying to hide a form in the systray.
How can I hide a windows form running operations to the system tray?
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Aug 5, 2011
i want an application that has no forms but a tray icon... i do not want to add a form to do this or have a loop..[code]I have been programming in VB for years.
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Dec 15, 2008
here a way in VB2005/2008 to list all the apps in the systray and nothing but them. I can list all the windows by theyre hwnd, but it also shows the taskbar windows and windows not even shown anywhere in windows.So I need to somehow list all the systemtray icons in a listbox.If something's not clear,
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Apr 15, 2012
I am doing my project in vb.net 2008. When I minimize my running windows application its icon must be minimized and fit in system tray. And when we doing some other works in our system (such as video playing or other working) my windows application must works in background.
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Mar 18, 2011
I need to list all icons in the system tray (compatibility is only necessary with Windows Vista) programatically using VB.NET. I've tried a ton of googling and forum searching but have discovered applicable code only in C++ or Delphi - I don't understand either well enough to interpret.
This open-source project [URL].. is an exceptional example of what I need to do but I can't figure out how to translate much more than the p/invoke signatures to vb.It's also worth noting that I don't need to control the icons (i.e. hide, destroy), just be able to populate a list of them with information such as their parent process, tooltip text, the actual icon, and it would be really great if it's possible to "see"
the tray's menu options too so they could be exposed through the vb program.
I'm not asking for anyone to write my code for me but a step in the right direction would be a great help. I'm a fast learner; just having problems getting myself headed down the right path here.
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Oct 21, 2005
I've been successful with this in VB6. The VS2005 notifyicon class is certainly much nicer and much improved.I've implemented a notifyicon and it's working as expected with one exception.
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May 23, 2011
I have an app that minimizes to the system tray. If I try to run the app again (forgot it was already running in the tray) I have a routine that prevents that. What I want is for that same routine that is running in the second instance to Open the first instance of the app from the system tray.
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Mar 11, 2009
I'm putting an image in the system tray.. and based on whats going on it will change..in vb6 I used to use image control and make an array out of it and just change the image on the index to make it animate..so in vs2005 whats the best way to do this now.. ?
I tried to use an image list but it could not convert the icons I put in as images to the image property of the notifyicon.. and I dont see a .toIcon method to convert it..then I read that you can make resources in the project itself.. but when I started on that it needs the actual name.. I dont see a way to use any index on that..so whats the best way to load up a set of icons that I can dynamically get access to via the index of this list ?
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