From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-11-26T15:29:55+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make a system tray program in Windows?

On 11/25/05, Sung Soo Kim <sskim.box@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I make my program appear in the system tray of the Windows?
>
> What I want my program do is to keep track of time regularly (using
> timer) and do something behind the scene. (like a scheduler.)
> So, I want to make my program disappear from main desktop and appear in the
> system tray.
>
> What can I do?

VisualuRuby makes this pretty easy:

http://www.osk.3web.ne.jp/~nyasu/vruby/vrproject-e.html

Here is the example script for the tray icon stuff:

http://www.osk.3web.ne.jp/~nyasu/vruby/sample/traytest.rb

Ryan