NotifyIcon Program ?

[Skoder]

Hello, can anyone tell me how i can make a program which is only running with a NotifyIcon as the only control ? (like etc. Daemon tools if anyone know that program) Is it possible without creating a Form ? Or should I Create a Form, then put a notifyIcon on it and let it be minimized from the start (and somehow never be able to be maximized) or maybe never draw itself ? (i guess there must be some "correct" way of doing this?) Also i dont want program to be able to be selected when doing Alt+Tab etc. Anyone know how to do this ? Best regards Martin :confused:

[S Senthil Kumar]

You could hide the form by setting Opacity to zero and I *think* if you set VisibleInTaskbar to false, it won't be shown when Alt+Tabbing. Regards Senthil _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | My Flickr | WinMacro

[kasik]

You don't need a form to do this, you just need to start a message loop. In the following example, calling Application.Run() starts the loop meaning that the NotifyIcon won't vanish instantly.

public class TaskTray
{
[STAThread]
public static void Main()
{
new TaskTray();
if ( !Application.MessageLoop )
Application.Run();
}

private NotifyIcon nIcon = new NotifyIcon();
public TaskTray()
{
    nIcon.Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon( typeof( TaskTray ), "myIcon.ico" );
    nIcon.Visible = true;
    nIcon.DoubleClick += new EventHandler( nIcon\_DoubleClick );
}

public void nIcon\_DoubleClick( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
    nIcon.Visible = false;
    Application.Exit();
}

}

Hope this helps :) Cheers, Will H

[Skoder]

Thanks, that was just perfect and what i needed. :-) Thanks again :) Best regards Martin