How to minimize windows form to system tray

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How to minimize windows form to system tray ??

Posted 14-May-11 3:54am

danger man 2011

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OriginalGriff 14-May-11 10:10am

.NET or MFC?

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Solution 1

If it's MFC (or otherwise un-managed code), you can minimize an application's main window, but not a form, to the system tray. If you're talking about .Net, you have to enable the control box that contains the various window control buttons (minimize, normalize, close), which should be enabled by default for all forms.

Posted 14-May-11 4:26am

#realJSOP

Solution 3

There's this alternative as well:

http://codeabout.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/how-to-place-your-c-application-in-the-system-tray/[^]

Posted 2-Mar-12 9:25am

Felipe Gentil

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danger man 2011 · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-28T03:20:00

trayicon = QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon(QtGui.QIcon("Bomb.ico"),app)
menu = QtGui.QMenu()
exit = menu.addAction("Exit")
menu.addAction("open")
menu.addSeparator()
menu.addAction("update")
trayicon.setContextMenu(menu)
trayicon.show()
trayicon.connect(exit,QtCore.SIGNAL('triggered()'),sys.exit)