How to refresh the system tray

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Hello,

I have created an MFC application and this application runs in the system tray. Once the work is done with this particular application i am killing the process using another MFC application.Now the problem i am facing here is even after the application is terminated the icon is still visible in the system tray and those icons are not cleared until i move my mouse on the tray.

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Posted 3-May-13 17:59pm

Rocky_Bas

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H.Brydon · Answer 1 · 2013-05-03T18:37:00

Solution 1

Rather than kill the process externally, set it up so that you can send it a message, and send a "please terminate" message so that it can clean things up and terminate itself gracefully.

Posted 3-May-13 18:37pm

H.Brydon

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Rocky_Bas 4-May-13 0:45am

But i can't manually terminate this application,as this application runs in the background and cant be opened.So i have to terminate it through other application once the work is done with that application.

H.Brydon 4-May-13 0:50am

This statement makes no sense. Being a background process does not change anything. If it is a process on the system, you can send it a message. The concept of "background process" does not exist as a formal definition on any Windows platform.

Style-7 · Answer 2 · 2013-05-03T19:52:00

Solution 3

C#

NOTIFYICONDATA nid={0};
nid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
nid.hWnd = hWnd;
nid.uID = 1; //your num
Shell_NotifyIcon( NIM_DELETE, &nid);

Posted 3-May-13 19:52pm

Style-7

Aydin Homay · Answer 3 · 2013-05-03T18:47:00

Hi
You can do it with ::Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_REMOVE, &address_of_oldicon); just for getting more information about it you can search in google.com I am sure this key word can be useful for you ;) Additionally please review follow of links:

Basic use of Shell_NotifyIcon in Win32[^]
Adding Icons to the System Tray[^]
http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/refresh-system-tray/547778[^]

Best Regards.