Hello, I have an app I'm working on that runs in the background and I have a NotifyIcon in the system tray, which I use to notify the user of some things. But now I came to a little problem.
I want to be able to always show the icon next to the system icons, i.e. Action centre, network, sound. And not hidden with other apps whereby you have to click the up arrow to show them.
If your not sure what I mean, there is this thing in control panel under Notification Area Icons which allows you to change what each icon can do, i.e. 'Show icon and notification', 'Hide icon and notifications' and 'Only show notification' <-- that's a Windows 7 example, I don't know how it would be in XP or Vista. But that is basically what I want to do. I want to programmatically set my application to 'Show icons and notifications'.
I know it's possible! I've seen it in action. A program named DropBox - once installed it automatically appears next to the clock and it's icon is always shown.
Here is an image example of how I want it to be: (The arrow shows my application)
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/Pk_King_X11/NotifyIconExample.png
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EDIT: Please goto: "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Notification Area Icons" (Windows 7)
^ You will see each icon has a behaviour, I want to set mine to 'Show icon and notifications' programmatically. I know it is possible... DropBox has done it.
EDIT 2:
OK, now I see how it works. Programs like DropBox and some Anti-Viruses basically change their icon's position in the tray... By changing it to 0 or 1 which ever is the first one, basically puts them right next to the clock, thus automatically changing the Notification Area Icons settings to 'Show icon and notifications', now that's pure genius...
But then comes a question. How could I achieve this?
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