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Placing an icon in the system tray from an ATL COM server - with minimum hassle

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This article describes a helper class that assists with placing an icon in the shell (aka "system tray"), and changing the tip text. You can get this functionality by simply deriving your ATL object from the helper class.
//Microsoft Developer Studio generated resource script.
//
#include "resource.h"

#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 2 resource.
//
#include "winres.h"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// English (U.S.) resources

#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENU)
#ifdef _WIN32
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
#pragma code_page(1252)
#endif //_WIN32

#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// TEXTINCLUDE
//

1 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE 
BEGIN
    "resource.h\0"
END

2 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE 
BEGIN
    "#include ""winres.h""\r\n"
    "\0"
END

3 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE 
BEGIN
    "1 TYPELIB ""SystemTrayDemo.tlb""\r\n"
    "\0"
END

#endif    // APSTUDIO_INVOKED


#ifndef _MAC
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Version
//

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
 FILEVERSION 1,0,0,1
 PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,1
 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
#ifdef _DEBUG
 FILEFLAGS 0x1L
#else
 FILEFLAGS 0x0L
#endif
 FILEOS 0x4L
 FILETYPE 0x2L
 FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904B0"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "CompanyName", "\0"
            VALUE "FileDescription", "SystemTrayDemo Module\0"
            VALUE "FileVersion", "1, 0, 0, 1\0"
            VALUE "InternalName", "SystemTrayDemo\0"
            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright 2002\0"
            VALUE "OriginalFilename", "SystemTrayDemo.DLL\0"
            VALUE "ProductName", "SystemTrayDemo Module\0"
            VALUE "ProductVersion", "1, 0, 0, 1\0"
            VALUE "OLESelfRegister", "\0"
        END
    END
    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
    END
END

#endif    // !_MAC


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// REGISTRY
//

IDR_MYSERVER            REGISTRY DISCARDABLE    "MyServer.rgs"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// String Table
//

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE 
BEGIN
    IDS_PROJNAME            "SystemTrayDemo"
END

#endif    // English (U.S.) resources
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// English (U.K.) resources

#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENG)
#ifdef _WIN32
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK
#pragma code_page(1252)
#endif //_WIN32

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Icon
//

// Icon with lowest ID value placed first to ensure application icon
// remains consistent on all systems.
IDI_ICON1               ICON    DISCARDABLE     "Icon1.ico"
IDI_ICON3               ICON    DISCARDABLE     "icon3.ico"
IDI_ICON4               ICON    DISCARDABLE     "icon4.ico"
IDI_ICON2               ICON    DISCARDABLE     "icon2.ico"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Dialog
//

IDD_ABOUT DIALOG DISCARDABLE  0, 0, 186, 46
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "About"
FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"
BEGIN
    DEFPUSHBUTTON   "OK",IDOK,130,25,50,14
    LTEXT           "System Tray Demo\nJon Taylor, June 2002",IDC_STATIC,40,
                    10,78,30
    ICON            IDI_ICON1,IDC_STATIC,5,10,21,20
END


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// DESIGNINFO
//

#ifdef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
GUIDELINES DESIGNINFO DISCARDABLE 
BEGIN
    IDD_ABOUT, DIALOG
    BEGIN
        LEFTMARGIN, 7
        RIGHTMARGIN, 179
        TOPMARGIN, 7
        BOTTOMMARGIN, 39
    END
END
#endif    // APSTUDIO_INVOKED


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Menu
//

IDR_POPUP_MENU MENU DISCARDABLE 
BEGIN
    POPUP "CODEPROJECT_POPUPMENU"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "About...",                    ID_CODEPROJECTPOPUPMENU_ABOUT

    END
END

#endif    // English (U.K.) resources
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////



#ifndef APSTUDIO_INVOKED
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 3 resource.
//
1 TYPELIB "SystemTrayDemo.tlb"

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#endif    // not APSTUDIO_INVOKED

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