Notification Tray Icon Component

ID: Q200786

The information in this article applies to:

The Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), included with:
- Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, versions 4.0, 4.1

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 files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file names below to download the files:

Tkbaricn.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

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
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