soloman675

I have found a way to have a program send another porgram into the system tray. I now want to figure out a way to get it out of the system tray. Is there anyway to trap any of the messages that will be sent when someone double clicks on this icon? Is there way way to get the name of the icon/window/app when my mouse moves over it? Any help would be so greatly appreicated.

robertdeniro

That would probably require that you subclass the other apps window - not a very clever thing to do. It can be done, but it's unstable because the guys who wrote that app didn't plan for it.

Are you trying to do something like send Word or Excel to the system tray, so it's easily accessible?
In that case you don't need to send the original app. Start the other app hidden, but hold onto its window handle/process ID/or whatever you need to reactivate it.

Then send you own icon into the system tray, and whenever the user click it, reactivate the hidden app.
You don't have to actually send the original app into the system tray - just give the user the impression that things are working that way.

soloman675

How could I subclass the other apps window??

Trivium

Check the knowledge library on this forum. John wrote a very informative tutorial on subclassing as a problem solving solution. But I think *coughs* robertdinero's solution would actually be a better one, and one I wouldn't have thought of myself.

Also, recommended reading:
Subclassing and Hooking with Visual Basic
Stephen Teilhet
O'Reilly Press 2001