Running app on tray in Windows?

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Running app on tray in Windows?

Post by CoffeeCone » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:49 am

I tried searching the LiveCode Dictionary for anything pertaining to the Windows tray but could not find any. Can anyone get me up to speed with how it's done? Or is it not possible? Similarly, I would want to make a menubar icon counterpart for the OS X version of my app.
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Re: Running app on tray in Windows?

Post by BvG » Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:00 pm

You can look in the release notes pdf (from the help menu) about the "statusIcon" of a stack. Note that it is experimental, and might be glitchy.
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Re: Running app on tray in Windows?

Post by CoffeeCone » Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:15 pm

BvG wrote:You can look in the release notes pdf (from the help menu) about the "statusIcon" of a stack. Note that it is experimental, and might be glitchy.
Hi, I checked it out and it seems to be what I need. However, there's no OS X support (it says Windows only). Is there a way to do this on OS X too? Any workarounds or hacks?
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Re: Running app on tray in Windows?

Post by BvG » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:44 am

Not that I know of, i faintly remember that someone did an external for that, but maybe I'm imagining things ;-)

Also note that, despite all the apps that do it, the HIG for Mac OS X explicitly forbids applications to put icons into the topright corner of the menubar.
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Re: Running app on tray in Windows?

Post by CoffeeCone » Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:07 am

BvG wrote:Also note that, despite all the apps that do it, the HIG for Mac OS X explicitly forbids applications to put icons into the topright corner of the menubar.
Well if that's the case, screw Apple and what they want, I still want it lol, I still hope it gets implemented soon. :D
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