System Tray icon does not disappear until I hover mouse over it

[rdgerken]

I have an app that uses a system tray icon. When the program ends, the icon is still visible, even though I remove the icon in the code. It will stay there until I hover my mouse over it, in which it will then disappear. Is there a way to "refresh" the system tray or something so that the icon disappears when the program ends?

Thanks

 

[SonOfEmidec1100]

Before ending the app use this code to remove the icon. Where nid is the same type used for the add icon

Shell_NotifyIcon &H2, nid
DoEvents

 

[rdgerken]

I appreciate the help, but even after adding the "DoEvents" (I had the Shell_NotifyIcon line in there already), it still does not actually remove the icon from the system tray until I hover over it with my mouse. It seems to be a windows refresh problem. (I'm using windows xp)

Anyone else have this problem or an idea?

 

[ADoozer]

i have this problem very often on a 2k pro machine! its not just VB apps it seems to be all kind of "professional" apps too.

i imagine its a windows problem rather than a coding problem!

good luck!

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[Som76]

Hi All

I have used "Shell_NotifyIconA" to remove the icon from System Tray. It works perfectly.
Pleas try with this.

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Private Declare Function Shell_NotifyIconA Lib "shell32.dll" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, lpData As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Integer

Private Type NOTIFYICONDATA
cbSize As Long
hwnd As Long
uID As Long
uFlags As Long
uCallbackMessage As Long
hIcon As Long
szTip As String * 64
End Type

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Regards
Som