Minimize to System Tray or TSR

[carelvos]

As the topic suggest, I would like to know how to minimize to Windows's system tray, or just hide my app from the taskbar but keeps running.

Thanks,

Carel

[MaxV]

Here find your solution: http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/st ... tstray.htm
The demo to try is free.

[carelvos]

Thanks MaxV, but I've been to that page already.

Is there no way you can do this in livecode? - I've done this ages ago in VB6!

[MaxV]

STSTray is for Livecode and made in Livecode.
However if you want to create your personal code, you should read this: http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_DLL

[MaxV]

You can also use this code:

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do "myVbscript" as "VBScript" 

[FourthWorld]

...or just hide my app from the taskbar but keeps running.l

Have you considered the "hide" command? You could call "hide this stack" in a preOpenStack or preOpenCard handler.

You can also use the startUpIconic stack property.

[jacque]

Another trick is that if the stack isn't a toplevel stack it won't show in the task bar. Modeless stacks behave almost identically to toplevel stacks in most respects, so that may be an option. I'm not on a Windows OS right now so I can't check, but if modeless doesn't work, I know palettes do.

[carelvos]

Thanks for everyone's input. FourthWold: I presume "hide this stack" would work on a Hide button as well, and if I put a checkbox "Do not show this again" (and save settings somewhere in an ".ini" file) and call it from preOpenStack it would work?

Could I assign a hotkey to unhide the stack again - Just so the user knows the program is running? (I haven't bothered searching, just thought of it at this moment)

Many thanks,

Carel

[SparkOut]

http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... hilit=tray may be useful. If you set the system tray icon, and change the windowshape or delete the "decorations" of the stack title bar, then iconify it should show you the programming is running with the system tray icon, but without a taskbar icon. You can uniconify on choosing an option from the system tray icon menu.