minimizing application to tray

[ethicalhacker]

how can i minimize my application to the taskbar tray on minimizing the application

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

add a notify icon control to your form and be sure to set it to visible. now you can use the Location changed event to hide the form and use the NotifyIcon's click or Double-Click event to re-show the form

There are numerous ways of doing this

 

[ethicalhacker]

but the form doesnt minimize to the tray ?

 

[JohnH]

You also have to set ShowInTaskbar to False when minimized.

 

[ethicalhacker]

its just not working the icon doesnt show in the tray!

 

[JohnH]

Have you set an Icon for the NotifyIcon component?

 

[ethicalhacker]

thanks u were right I hadnt set the nofify icon's icon I had set the form icon and thought it would work.
But the onclick event doesnt work see my code:

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_LocationChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.LocationChanged
        Me.Hide()
    End Sub

    Private Sub NotifyIcon1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.Click
        Me.Show()
    End Sub
End Class

This does dissapear on minimising but when i click the icon in the system tray once then the form just shows in the taskbar as minimized and when i click again then it become maximized
do I have to set the form maximised function on click of the notify icon?

 

[ethicalhacker]

ok nevermind i fixed that with

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_LocationChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.LocationChanged
        If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then
            Me.Hide()
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub NotifyIcon1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.Click
        Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized
        Me.Show()
        Me.Focus()
    End Sub
End Class

But the when maximised the form is still not in focus(above all other windows)

 

[JohnH]

I found this note about the Focus method:

Focus is a low-level method intended primarily for custom control authors. Instead, application programmers should use the Select method or the ActiveControl property for child controls, or the Activate method for forms.

So you use the Activate method.

 

[ethicalhacker]

activate worked just fine Thanks again man!
But how is it doesnt show up ion the list when i typ me.

 

[JohnH]

But how is it doesnt show up ion the list when i typ me.

Intellisense works fine here for this, I don't know why yours doesn't.