From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-11-26T22:27:28+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make a system tray program in Windows?


Tom Ayerst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Very neat.  I found the icons in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\INETCPL.CPL' though.
>


Ah, thanks.  That may apply to the majority, then.

> Do you have pointers to more info on this API?  I am not really a
> windows programmer.
>


On MSDN,
http://qurl.net/o2
http://qurl.net/o3

I support Ryan's point about VRuby/SWin and I should have mentioned it.

The traytest.rb example he linked to should be more appropriate to the
original poster than I thought.

My example would need a Windows message loop to do anything useful like
minimizing a GUI or waking it up again by clicking on the tray icon.
VRuby implements that and, of course, most Windows users will have it
installed already if they used the RubyForge one-click installer.


Cheers,

daz