FILE: SAMPLE Notification Tray Icon Component

ID: Q200786

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SUMMARY

The Notification Tray Icon Component can be inserted in a project to obtain the code necessary to hide the application icon in the notification area of the taskbar. The code will work for both an MFC SDI and MDI application. This component assumes that the project has a CMainFrame class that has been derived from the CFrameWnd or CMDIFrameWnd MFC class.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:

Tkbaricn.exe
Release Date: Jul-20-1999

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
After decompressing the file you will have get a Tkbaricn.dll, Kbaricn.hlp, and a Readme.txt file. Follow the instructions in the Readme.txt file to see where the .dll and .hlp files should go.


MORE INFORMATION

The notification tray icon component inserts a new class called CTaskbarIcon, that is used to provide function calls that wrap the construction of the NOTIFYICONDATA structure and any necessary SDK API calls. Refer to the help button provided on the Component Gallery insert dialog for more detailed information of this class and the changes made to the project.

Additional query words: tkbaricn taskbar notification tray icon component 


Keywords          : kbsample kbMFC KbUIDesign kbVC400 kbVC410 kbCompGallery 
Version           : winnt:4.0,4.1
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        :

Last Reviewed: July 20, 1999