System tray refresh?

mark_me

Hi, I have created a windows application in C# that kills a process on a specified time and starts the same process at another time. The process kill is successful but icon in system tray still remains. Each time a new process is created, icons are added ..so one application has 3-4 icons with only one icon thats the real application and the rest disappear only whn u hover mouse over them. I believe that the system tray needs to be refreshed somehow. Can anyone provide help on how to get rid of the icons. Thanks

Xmen Real

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/TrayIconBuster.aspx

Baeltazor

When your application exits, inside the Form_Closing event handler you should use this code: notifyIcon1.Dispose(); That will ensure your 'system tray' icon gets removed when your application exits.

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Xmen Real

he is killing other applications... :)

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Baeltazor

Thanks for that. I only just realized, my brain no work properly this morning lol :)

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mark_me

My application is a windows service. it doesn't have any icon. I am closing another application which has an icon. This application doesn't provide any interface to restart it so i find its processes in task manager, save it exe path from there and then kill the processes. The path is used to start the service again if needed. When i kill the process, its icon remains and disappears only when i move mouse over it.

Baeltazor

Sorry for my misunderstanding in my previous post. It sounds like that article Xmen gave you would be the way to go. I hope it works out well. :)

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mark_me

Thanx xmen.. Your reply is an answer but it seems that the application goes thru all processes... Is it possible to change ths code to "remove the icon for this process"... or do i have to read in all processes and then remove ones which have no filename... Actually, i realize that its a bit too early to reply coz i hvent looked into code that much... Thankyou for forwarding such a helpful application... Best regards

mark_me

Thankyou

Luc Pattyn

Hi, Such exit code doesn't get executed when you kill a process. That is not the solution. Read the article that was mentioned, it works! :-D

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Of course it works, how dare you doubt that? :laugh: :laugh:

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Baeltazor

:laugh: That's a great article by the way :-D

Regards, Jason Pezzimenti.

Luc Pattyn

Thanks. I wanted the problem solved at that time, and no solution seemed to be available, so... :)

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mark_me

thanks and great article !!! Thanx alot

Luc Pattyn

You're welcome. :)

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Mycroft Holmes

mark_me wrote:

its icon remains and disappears only when i move mouse over it.

I wonder if it is an XP thing, I have something at work (put in place by those IT Gods who maintain our infrastructure) that creates the task manager icon at start up, it disappears if I do this.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH