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Hippo · Contributor Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

My application can be minimized to the tray. When it's minimized a tooltip on the taskicon will display infomation. However I want the taskicon to change to also show limited information.

How do I go about changing the taskicon? My Idea is to change the icon dependent on other values ie if value = 1, then display icon1 if value = 2 then display icon2 etc.

Hippo

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject:

If I'm not mistaken you can use DIALOG SET,<name>,<iconPath>.
I'm fairly sure that the answer is in the help file somewhere.

Hippo · Contributor Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

The help file suggested I could change the tooltip but not the icon. Thanks I try that out Smile

Mac · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject:

I think ya have to use DIALOG REMOVE to remove the
taskicon element, then DIALOG ADD again to re-create
it with a different icon.

At least that's what I have to do with VDS 3. Wink

The downside is that the icon will be re-added to the tray
on the right each time, so it may be moving around some.

Cheers, Mac Smile

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject:

As much as I hate to say it, Mac's right and I'm wrong Confused

You need to
remove and re-add the TASKICON in order to change it, unless you're
using VDS 5 and then you could try the Shell_NotifyIcon() API.

jules · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject:

I'm sure you don't have to remove and recreate it. I'm sure one of the examples (it's an API one) gets CPU usage information and shows the percentage by changing the icon. You use the same dialog set command: if it's an icon file or resource it changes the icon, if it's text, it changes the toltip.

Hippo · Contributor Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

Thanks for the help guys, I found that you can use DIALOG SET,TASKICON,TASKICONNAME,icon.ico to set the taskicon ico. I did find however that the .ico file will only be included in the exe (using #icon.ico) on the DIALOG ADD command.

I found a quick workaround by adding another taskicon in a section of the program that will never be run. The compiler then added it.

Mac · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

Jules - is there any way to change the icon in VDS 3
without using DIALOG REMOVE/DIALOG ADD? Confused

Cheers, Mac Smile

jules · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:52 am Post subject:

jules · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:55 am Post subject:

Mac · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:

Actually with VDSug.dll I do have quite a bit of API access,
but it only has support for a few basic structs and I don't
think they work for icons. Wink

Thanks, Mac Smile

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject:

Hey Mac,

Ya know it would be very easy to add that functionality to VDSug.dll. It's
a really simple task. Need any info, ya know how to reach me Wink

Mac · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:34 am Post subject:

Thanks Bill, but it's no big deal - and I have another project
I'm working on at the moment... Wink

Was mostly just curious.

Cheers, Mac Smile

Hippo · Contributor Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

Thanks for the help guys, I have it sorted Smile

CodeScript · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:28 am Post subject:

For VDS3 you can use the VDSGUI extension dll which has
an advanced Taskicon element with Balloon tool tip support too.