I'm trying to hide the system tray icon of a program that I'm calling with my program. I'm currently working on a program that provides guides and quick resources to other members of my team. I've got the program to load an AutoHotKey file at launch but the AHK icon shows in the System Tray/Notification area of the task bar. I would like to hide that icon.
I'm currently working in VB.net
So, I don't want to hide anything from the taskbar, I just want to hide the icon of AHK from the system tray.
I have done some looking around and seen some things with the Shell_NotifyIcon but I'm not sure how to implement this.
Figured it out. AutoHotKey has a built in feature to hide the tray icon.
HideTrayIcon
Place that inside the script and it will not show it in the system tray.
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I need to make a form visible even when I switch desktop on Windows 10 (by pressing Ctrl-Windows-Arrow) if possible, without any 2nd party lib
You can create multiple desktops by pressing Windows-Tab and clicking the + on the bottom-right corner.
Normally, a form only appears in the original desktop it was shown, and can be dragged to another desktop, but won't appear in multiples at the same time.
I know it's possible, because the splash forms of some applications do this. (Ex: Word, Excel)
I searched all over the web, but couldn't find a solution.
EDIT: Another app that I know that does this is the Task Manager, when you mark the "Always Show" checkbox.
This may be of some help. You have to dive into the world of AutoHotKey but this will solve your issues I'm pretty sure:
https://superuser.com/questions/950960/pin-applications-to-multiple-desktops-in-windows-10
Set your form's topmost property to true? Have you tried that?
I have a launcher application for some file-types in mac osx. I want to know is it possible to register custom Icon for file-types associated with my launcher application? and does anybody know exact behavior of OS, when does it show Icon and when does it show some empty icon?
Question 1:
It's easy. In finder, right click on the filename with the extension you're interested in.
Find the "Open with:" section,
Click on the blue part and navigate to your launcher app and select it.
Then click on "Change All..."
Write down, or remember what it used to be before changing it, in case you want to go back to the old behavior. It affects all files with that extension.
Question 2:
Check this link for information on filling in the images in your assets folder: App Icons
If you include an icon in your app, and do the above steps, the icon will show. If you don't include one, it won't.
For most IDE, such as eclipse, Intellij, Processing, and other, it seems that even after pinning the program to the task bar, when I actually open it, it creates another program that is not pinned to the task bar. As a result, I have multiple icons on the taskbar. I'm guessing that the ones I pinned on the taskbars are kind of like launching applications and they open a separate application, not that I'm sure of this theory, but I'd prefer to have only one application showing up on the taskbar. So, is there a way to set it up so even after I start the program, another doesn't show up on the taskbar?
Also, It seems like I can't pin the program that gets opened.
Here's a picture of the taskbar.
Or, since it seems like I can't post a picture yet,
This is what's going on with my taskbar.
http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u538/jerichoi224/Untitled_zps216034f9.png
This is because IDEs launch instances, which Windows doesn't support taskbar pinning for.
The solution for Eclipse IDE is to add:
-vm
C:/path_to_jre/bin
, to the beginning of the eclipse.ini file, in the eclipse directory, and relaunching the IDE.
I have a program in vb.net which is ready to be published.
Its a small detail, but I'd like to change the icon on both the published app shortcut on my desktop, but more importantly on my taskbar (like where the chrome circle shows up).
Is there any way to accomplish this?
To change the main icon for your application, go to the "Application" tab under the project property page, and change the "Icon:" combo box.
I'm working on a program that can play songs off an iPod. I want to be able to put functional Back, Play/Pause and Next buttons on its Aero Peek thumbnail like this:
For those who can't see it: http://i45.tinypic.com/1yua0m.png
How would I do this in VB6?
EDIT: Can I also create a jump list for my app? For this app, I only need taskbar jump lists. For others, I'll need taskbar and start menu jump lists so posting code to achieve both would be appreciated.
EDIT 2: I have uploaded a sample of how to use the ITaskBarList3 interface to add buttons to the window preview (and handle their click events), add an icon overlay, clip the window preview and add a progress bar to the program's taskbutton. Download it here.
Look at the Taskbar Thumbnail Toolbar feature of Windows Explorer. This does use a COM interface so I don't know how practical it is to use for VB but I beliver the IDLs are available if you look.
You can also find a C# example and the UI guidelines on MSDN.
The Jumplist information is also covered on the same pages.