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Persian Calendar with Tray Icon

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A Persian calendar that shows a tray icon
TrayIconPersianCalendar/traycalande1.jpg

TrayIconPersianCalendar/traycalande2.jpg

Introduction 

In this article, I will teach you how to build a simple application that creates a tray icon and shows a simple menu. Also in this article, you'll learn how to hide the main form of your application. If you are Persian, you can find codes that convert the date of a system to Hejri Shamsi and show the date in a tray icon.In new version add many new feature including showing the calendar,scheduling tasks and also printing tasks.Please download the new version. 

Using the Code 

To create a program that shows a tray icon, you should add a notify icon control to your form from the toolbox. Notify icons have some properties:

TrayIconPersianCalendar/traycalande3.jpg

Some important properties are:

  1. Icon: changes the icon that shows in a tray icon
  2. Visible: sets if the icon is shown or not
  3. ContextMenu: sets a menu for your tray icon
  4. Text: sets the tool tip of a tray icon

I set all of these properties in a constructor of form:

C#
public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            /* some code there
                    */

            string s = strDay + " " + Convert.ToString(dd) + " " + 
                strMonth + " " + Convert.ToString(yy);
            s += "\n" + d1.ToLongDateString();
            notifyIcon1.Text = s;

            m_menu = new ContextMenu();
            m_menu.MenuItems.Add(0,
                new MenuItem("Exit", new System.EventHandler(Exit_Click)));
            notifyIcon1.ContextMenu = m_menu;
            notifyIcon1.Visible = true;
        }

In this project, I want a to hide my main form. For this, I did the following:

  1. Set the ormWindowState property of the form to Minimized
  2. Set the Opacity property of the form to 0
  3. Set the ShowInTaskbar property to false
  4. Add an event handler for VisibleChanged and add the below code:
C#
private void Form1_VisibleChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
      this.Visible = false;
  }

So, this program just shows a tray icon and the main form is not displayed. Therefore, for exiting from the program, I create a menu for the tray icon with an exit item. When the user clicks on the exit item, the program ends.

C#
protected void Exit_Click(Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
  {
      Close();
  }

My program changes the tray icon related the date in Hejri Shamsi. For doing this, I created 31 icons and added them to the resource of my project. I created an array of form icons.

C#
Icon[] Icon_ar = new Icon[32];
Icon_ar[1] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon1;
Icon_ar[2] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon2;
Icon_ar[3] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon3;
Icon_ar[4] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon4;
Icon_ar[5] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon5;
Icon_ar[6] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon6;
Icon_ar[7] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon7;
Icon_ar[8] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon8;
Icon_ar[9] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon9;
Icon_ar[10] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon10;
Icon_ar[11] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon11;
Icon_ar[12] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon12;
Icon_ar[13] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon13;
Icon_ar[14] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon14;
Icon_ar[15] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon15;
Icon_ar[16] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon16;
Icon_ar[17] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon17;
Icon_ar[18] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon18;
Icon_ar[19] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon19;
Icon_ar[20] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon20;
Icon_ar[21] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon21;
Icon_ar[22] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon22;
Icon_ar[23] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon23;
Icon_ar[24] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon24;
Icon_ar[25] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon25;
Icon_ar[26] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon26;
Icon_ar[27] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon27;
Icon_ar[28] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon28;
Icon_ar[29] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon29;
Icon_ar[30] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon30;
Icon_ar[31] = global::mytray.Properties.Resources.icon31;

In the above code, I retrieve Icons from the resource of the assembly. Retrieving has the advantage that, at run time, your EXE files have icons inside and don't need external files.

C#
notifyIcon1.Icon = Icon_ar[dd];

Conclusion

In this simple project, you can find the solution for the problems of creating tray icons, creating menus and retrieving icons from resources.

I hope this is useful.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)


Written By
Engineer neyshabur azad univeristy
Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
I had worked as programmer,project manager,web developer for more than 3 years, and have worked on programming personaly for more than 10 years.
I have worked in university as a teacher for 8 years.
my favorite langueges are : VC++,C#,ASP.NET,PHP

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