Notification Icon

[Shrek]

There are a few dll's kicking about and a plugin that deal with the tray icon but none give a callback for tray icon click/right click and balloon message click or let you set an animated icon or custom balloon icon and these are standard windows features so I figured that this can be done relatively easily with MemoryEx and a hidden window (so not to interfere with other subclasses) to get the callbacks, I'm at this so far:

Notification Icon.lua.txt

but the Windows reports the Shell_NotifyIcon as having succeeded but what happens is the taskbar notification area makes way for the new icon but fails to show it and the space created by the call vanishes on mouse over, anyone know whats up?

Refs:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762159%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773352%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[RizlaUK]

in your script, function "CreateTrayIcon"

if tonumber(Shell32Library.Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD,p oi)) == 0 then
TTIi.DestroyIcon(Ih)
return false, "Create tray icon failed"
else
TTIi.DestroyIcon(Ih)
return true, "OK"
end

your destroying the icon in both success and failure???

[kingzooly]

Just tested the code with the second destroy removed it opens up a place in the tool bar but no tooltip or icon show.


--Edit
Also after running the test more then a few times (pressing the button) it starts to fail.

[Shrek]

I was, I read its OK to destroy the resource once its been used but filtering out both destroys still gives the same issue, here is another go with a HWND_MESSAGE window so it wont interfere with the main app window:

Notification Icon.lua.txt

I was really looking forward to clicking a balloon and opening a webpage :lol

[kingzooly]

---------------------------
Create tray icon failed
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

This happens all the time now, it does not even show a blank space like it did before.

[Shrek]

You have to (on win 7/8) click the ^ arrow then hover over the invisible icons to clear them then it will do it again, the icon can be painted on the page when loaded and set as a title bar icon so I know it loads the icon.........

[kingzooly]

I might be wrong but should this

NOTIFYICONDATA = MemoryEx.DefineStruct{
	DWORD "cbSize",
	HWND  "hWnd";
	UINT  "uID";
	UINT  "uFlags";
	UINT  "uCallbackMessage";
	HICON "hIcon";
	TCHAR ("szTip",128,1,MEMEX_ASCII);
	DWORD "dwState";
	DWORD "dwStateMask";
	TCHAR ("szInfo",256,1,MEMEX_ASCII);
	UNION {
		UINT "uTimeout";
		UINT "uVersion";
	};
	TCHAR ("szInfoTitle",256,1,MEMEX_ASCII);
	DWORD "dwInfoFlags";
	GUID  "guidItem";
	HICON "hBalloonIcon";
};

be

NOTIFYICONDATA = MemoryEx.DefineStruct({
	DWORD "cbSize",
	HWND  "hWnd",
	UINT  "uID",
	UINT  "uFlags",
	UINT  "uCallbackMessage",
	HICON "hIcon",
	TCHAR ("szTip",128,1,MEMEX_ASCII),
	DWORD "dwState",
	DWORD "dwStateMask",
	TCHAR ("szInfo",256,1,MEMEX_ASCII),
	UNION = {
		UINT "uTimeout",
		UINT "uVersion"
	},
	TCHAR ("szInfoTitle",256,1,MEMEX_ASCII),
	DWORD "dwInfoFlags",
	GUID  "guidItem",
	HICON "hBalloonIcon"
})

[RizlaUK]

Shrek, this code makes zero sense to me, i have not used MemoryEx at all but your structures system seems a bit "over complicated" to me

on line 109 you assign a structure, set some values and close the structure on line 128, wheres the pointer being saved to???

on line 187 your sending your "GetStrucPointer" function an empty structure definition (NOTIFYICONDATA)

so what your sending to "Shell_NotifyIcon" is not the structure defined on line 109

should you not be sending the structure defined on line 109 to "Shell_NotifyIcon" ???

[kingzooly]

I am also lost with the code but I did try making it more readable for myself

note.lua.txt

I have seen you did included things like the memory free function in places where you can just included it once.

I really want to help with this one but I guess IP will be your man with the plugin side, but I would say slowly go throw your code and do the basic things first.

[RizlaUK]

also, your creating an edit window with a parent handle of -3 (HWND_MESSAGE), you need a popup child window to assign a tray icon to and you should make all windows children of the main AMS window, an EDIT is a control window, you can nhot assign a sys tray icon to it

[Shrek]

@Rizla, thanks its working now, one has to close the structure after the icon is set.........

[kingzooly]

@Rizla, thanks its working now, one has to close the structure after the icon is set.........

So what's the fix? I am interested to see it working now I got lost in its code lol

[Shrek]

Its here:

Notification Icon.lua.txt

tided it up a bit but it works no problem, just need to subclass a window now to get the callbacks but I was wanting to leave the main one alone.

[kingzooly]

Its here:

[ATTACH]12426[/ATTACH]

tided it up a bit but it works no problem, just need to subclass a window now to get the callbacks but I was wanting to leave the main one alone.

Thanks for sharing I give this a play with tomorrow, baby needs a change then time for bed my back has gone, sorry I was no help lol

[RizlaUK]

Yes, i also got your script working, but i had to make a few changes! lol :yes