HOW TO HIDE SYSTEM TRAY ICONS????????????

I wanted to make a delphi program that would minimize to the system tray (visibly) but I did not want to have a window/view menu so I wanted to put that function in the system menu! (the icon on the left of the title bar)

So I did that... and delphi is different, but similar with the API stuff. Yet, I could not see it in the icon tray! A couple of hours of debugging, and I could see it but it did not work!! A few more hours, then all worked!!!

The notifyicondata data is just that but to get it all working with the mouse and the system menu, took many more lines of code! is was like full procedures plus a couple of extra "gotcha's" to work out.

So it all works for your program if you can see it but to hide it? I think it has to be there to work... So maybe you would need a blank icon, or change the icon property to null?

Yet for someone elses program, wouldn't you just download a nifty icon tray util that does that sort of thing?

This program could allow you to mess with the icons in other programs:

http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

Or you could use a program that just hides windows... Yet how would you hide the hider??

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/OuttaSight/outofsight.html

hey thanks for ur technical advice, i was trying ur code...and its compiling alright. I have selected the project as "win32 application". am i right in doing that? then..i compiled the code..its fine..but on build, i get 2 errors :     
"LIBCD.lib(wincrt0.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 Debug/test_winapi.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Error executing link.exe."   

am stuck now... was wondering if u could help me in this. thanx

Hey guys..need help again.... i need help on how EnumWindows works and also, how i can find HWND hWnd (handle) for the particular application that i want to hide icons from the system tray.

This is the code i have written: The error message on linking is also given after the code:

#include<string.h>
#include<windows.h>
#include<shellapi.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<winuser.h>



void Shell_NotifyIconExample()
{
     char *str="hello, this is just a test";
    
/* Add a Shell_NotifyIcon notificaion for PocketPC or Smartphone.*/

    NOTIFYICONDATA nid = {0};

    nid.cbSize    &n bsp;   = sizeof(nid);
    nid.uID      ;       = 100;      /* Per WinCE SDK docs, values from 0 to 12 are reserved and should not be used.*/

    nid.uFlags    = NIF_ICON;
    nid.hIcon    &nb sp;= LoadIcon(NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE(10));
     
     /*HWND hWnd*/
     nid.hWnd   &nbs p; =NULL;
/* I have no clue as to what is to be filled in this   field!*/

    /* Add the notification to the tray.*/
    Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &nid);

    /* Update the notification icon.*/
    nid.uFlags   = NIF_ICON;
    nid.hIcon    = LoadIcon(NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE(10));
    strcpy(nid.szTip,str);
    Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, &nid);

    /* Remove the notification from the tray.*/
    Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_DELETE, &nid);

    
}

void main()
{
    Shell_NotifyIconExample();
}


This the error message i got on linking:

--------------------Configuration: test_winapi - Win32 Debug--------------------
Linking...
LIBCD.lib(wincrt0.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16
Debug/test_winapi.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.
Creating browse info file...

test_winapi.exe - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)

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[QUOTE=jessy]here's what you want http://www.cpringold.com/products/astc.html[/QUOTE]

VB (and his "components" sucks) !!!, VB is for ladies (i don't want to offend the ladies for this), but Assembler rules, c++ rules, Delphi rules (i can even make a c++ builder app and then port to Delphi and viceversa!!!).