Has Anyone Have Any Idea, How To Make An (Icon Shortcut) In The Taskbar?

[joeterra]

Greetings,
So far I've been able to create shortcuts everywhere, the desktop, in the start menu and even in quick launch, but not the taskbar where I really need it. After that I want the shorcut to behave like, let's say Norton Antivirus, whereas the shortcut loads into the taskbar when windows starts and you can perhaps (if I knew how) create a short menu that when the user right clicks it, choices come out like: about, update, exit, etc. THANKS!

[Mark]

Re: Has Anyone Have Any Idea, How To Make An (Icon Shortcut) In The Taskbar?

Hi Joeterra,

It sounds like what you are asking for is actually a shortcut in the system tray rather then a shortcut in the taskbar. The icons you see in the system tray (the right side of the taskbar) represent programs that are currently running on the system.

It would be the responsibility of the program that is running to sun in the system tray. That being said there really is no way for Setup Factory to create a shortcut for you there.

[joeterra]

Re: Has Anyone Have Any Idea, How To Make An (Icon Shortcut) In The Taskbar?

Thanks Mark, you're right it is the system tray I was refering to. Can you recomend a product that would be able to actually write this piece of code? Thanks again!

[Mark]

Re: Has Anyone Have Any Idea, How To Make An (Icon Shortcut) In The Taskbar?

Hi joeterra,

Basically the program that is running will be "running" in the system tray. So it will be something that your program will do when it runs. You might want to look at using the Shell_NotifyIcon() API call in your code.

There are a few programs that allow you to run any program in the system tray, but I think those are more "end user" programs rather then tools for people creating applications.