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GregLand

Hello Every Body...

Do you know if theres an API or a way to refresh all icons in the system tray ?

I saw some post (1, 2,3 ... ) about refreshing the icon of the current app, but is there a way to refresh all icons in the systray (After an explorer crash for exemple)...

Thanks for all ! Wink

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

Gregland,
Not really. The individual applications manage their own systray Icons. They are supposed to respond to a window message that the system created called TaskbarCreated. If you have a application that does not restore it's icon on an Explorer restart send the company the URL below and ask them to upgrade their application to handle the TaskbarCreated API message.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/programmersguide/shell_int/shell_int_programming/taskbar.asp

To get the message ID for the TaskbarCreated message they can call the Win32 API function RegisterWindowMessage when their program starts and everytime their message loop recieves this message they should tell the system tray to redraw the Icon by calling the Win32 API function Shell_NotifyIcon with the NIM_ADD message. All of this is documented at the URL above.

GregLand · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Thank a lot dragonsphere I will read that...