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Niki: /* Accessing system tray */

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Accessing system tray

Niki: /* Introduction */

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Introduction

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Niki: /* Kommentare */

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Niki am 2. Mai 2009 um 21:03 Uhr

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-Accessing system tray isn’t really a simple job. There is only one API function: Shell_IconNotify. This function sets an icon to system tray or removes it but only if a few parameters are known: The window handle of the window receiving the messages and an application defined ID.
+Accessing system tray isn't really a simple job. There is only one API function: Shell_IconNotify. This function sets an icon to system tray or removes it but only if a few parameters are known: The window handle of the window receiving the messages and an application defined ID.
 Every user can call this function to remove/modify an icon but the problem is: where to get the hwnd and the uID?
 = Enumerating systray icons =

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-I do not want to use the feature of WindowsXP to hide system tray icons. On the other side, there is the tray icon “Tablet PC” which can’t be removed. I searched the whole net but anybody gave the “tip” to hide it with XPs feature.
+I do not want to use the feature of WindowsXP to hide system tray icons. On the other hand, there is the tray icon "Tablet PC" which can't be removed. I searched the whole net but anybody gave the "tip" to hide it with XPs feature.
-I really don’t need this icon because all of the features are accessible by hardware buttons.
+I really don't need this icon because all of the features are accessible by hardware buttons.
 = Accessing system tray =

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-[[Bild:tpc.png|left]] Quick download: [[Datei:Deltabletray.zip]]
+[[Bild:tpc.png|left]] Quick download: [[Media:Deltabletray.zip]]
 For a brief description, click on "read more"
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 <section begin="head"/>
-[[Bild:tpc.png|left]] Quick download: http://www.nobaq.net/~niki/deltabletray/
+[[Bild:tpc.png|left]] Quick download: [[Datei:Deltabletray.zip]]
 For a brief description, click on "read more"
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 = Introduction =

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	<comments />{{:{{TALKSPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}}}		<comments />{{:{{TALKSPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}}}
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−	~~== Kommentare ==~~
−
−	~~daniel sagt,~~
−	~~am 5. Jul. 2006~~
−
−	~~Nice work Nobaq!~~
−	~~Even though i do not have a tablet or use windows, i am very interested in the source-code of your feat.~~
−	~~so is it possible to publish it under the gpl?~~
−
−	~~greetings daniel~~
−
−	~~Curtis sagt,~~
−	~~am 7. Aug. 2006~~
−
−	~~BRAVO. thank you so much. I have wanted to get rid of that awful icon for so long,~~
−	~~and not use the lame hiding icons way. Millionen Dank!~~

	[[Kategorie:Weblog]]		[[Kategorie:Weblog]]

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-== Introduction ==
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-== Accessing system tray ==
+= Accessing system tray =
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-== Enumerating systray icons ==
+= Enumerating systray icons =
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-== Spying data ==
+= Spying data =
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 It's compiled with lcc32.
 == Kommentare ==

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	It's compiled with lcc32.		It's compiled with lcc32.
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		+	== Kommentare ==
		+
		+	daniel sagt,
		+	am 5. Jul. 2006
		+
		+	Nice work Nobaq!
		+	Even though i do not have a tablet or use windows, i am very interested in the source-code of your feat.
		+	so is it possible to publish it under the gpl?
		+
		+	greetings daniel
		+
		+	Curtis sagt,
		+	am 7. Aug. 2006
		+
		+	BRAVO. thank you so much. I have wanted to get rid of that awful icon for so long,
		+	and not use the lame hiding icons way. Millionen Dank!

	[[Kategorie:Weblog]]		[[Kategorie:Weblog]]

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		+	[[Bild:tpc.png\|left]] Quick download: http://www.nobaq.net/~niki/deltabletray/
		+	For a brief description, click on "read more"
		+	<section end="head"/>
		+
		+
		+	== Introduction ==
		+
		+
		+	I do not want to use the feature of WindowsXP to hide system tray icons. On the other side, there is the tray icon “Tablet PC” which can’t be removed. I searched the whole net but anybody gave the “tip” to hide it with XPs feature.
		+	I really don’t need this icon because all of the features are accessible by hardware buttons.
		+
		+
		+	== Accessing system tray ==
		+
		+
		+	Accessing system tray isn’t really a simple job. There is only one API function: Shell_IconNotify. This function sets an icon to system tray or removes it but only if a few parameters are known: The window handle of the window receiving the messages and an application defined ID.
		+	Every user can call this function to remove/modify an icon but the problem is: where to get the hwnd and the uID?
		+
		+
		+	== Enumerating systray icons ==
		+
		+
		+	I searched a lot in the net about that question and almost the one thing I could find is that’s not possible. At least not without reading out systray memory and do RE. But then I found a VB program that could read out the tooltips: http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=3291. I translated that code to C and tried it: After two hours work, it worked but only the tooltips are read out.
		+	Then I searched google a second time with better expressions: “ReadProcessMemory” and “NOTIFYICONDATA”. This combination should be only useful for reading out the NOTIFYICONDATA structures from system tray from another application. Along silly pages from experts-exchange (the want to be paid for viewing forum posts - really ugly!) I finally found a solution on codeproject. This app only works with WindowsXP and does not rawly read out memory. Instead, it uses toolbar functions. I simply extened this program to read out/display all the other functions needed.
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		+
		+	== Spying data ==
		+
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		+	I finally found out the HWND of the window and that the uID was zero. The name of the window I obtained with spy by searching for the window handle. It belongs to a window with window class “TabBtnU_MonitorWndClass”. This window belongs to a process called tabbtnu.exe, which also recreates the icon after the process is killed.
		+	So it was very easy to implement a small program that gets the HWND with FindWindow, fill in a NOTIFYICONDATA and call Shell_NotifyIcon. That’s all what the little exe file does.
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		+	It's compiled with lcc32.
		+
		+	[[Kategorie:Weblog]]