B4J Library jSystemTray - Add icons to the system tray (notifications)

Erel · Feb 6, 2014

With this library you can add system tray icons and handle their events.

This is useful for applications that should run in the background and still allow the user to interact with.

Tray icons have two events: DoubleClick and MenuClick. The menu appears when the user right clicks on the icon.

Usually when the user closes the last form the process exits. The process will however keep running if there is at least one visible tray icon.

This library is an internal library now. If you don't see it in the IDE then you can download it here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/updates-to-internal-libaries.48274/#post-441231

Pascual Pérez · Feb 17, 2014

Ok, thank you.

GMan · Feb 17, 2014

Sorry, misunderstood you: you meant ALL Windows (including the other Win Windows).
This works also NOT @ me

lymey · Feb 28, 2014

Thanks Erel, very useful!
Is there a way to show the menu when you right click on the minimized icon in the status bar rather than the system tray?

lymey · Feb 28, 2014

lymey said:
Thanks Erel, very useful!
Is there a way to show the menu when you right click on the minimized icon in the status bar rather than the system tray?

Sorry I mean Task bar

Erel · Mar 2, 2014

No. I may be missing something but there is no such feature in Windows.

lymey · Mar 4, 2014

Perhaps I am not explaining this well.

An example would be to right click on the Firefox icon in the task bar when it is minimized - you will see the most frequently used pages (as you do with B4J), BUT in addition you have 'Task options' that allow you to open a new tab, window or private window.
With Google Chrome you see 'Most visited', 'Recently closed', and once again 'Tasks' with similar options and with Skype you see 'Tasks' with the options to sign out and quit.

Erel · Mar 5, 2014

I see it with Skype too (not with Firefox for some strange reason). This is currently not possible.

petr4ppc · Jun 3, 2014

Thank you very much Erel, amazing!

Tyler · Sep 18, 2014

Is there a way to make the MainForm show by clicking and "open" option from right clicking the tray icon?

Erel · Sep 18, 2014

You can show a form by calling MainForm.Show.

Tyler · Sep 18, 2014

That doesn't work when the form is minimized.

Erel · Sep 18, 2014

You can use this code to both show the form and change its "iconified" state:

B4X:

MainForm.Show
Dim stage As JavaObject = MainForm
stage.GetFieldJO("stage").RunMethod("setIconified", Array(False))

Peter Simpson · Dec 30, 2014

This is an excellent system tray library, thank you @Erel.

matek · Nov 24, 2015

Hello
I have a question, how to close icon tray when I close the application's window? What to do to minimize the application to tray

Erel · Nov 25, 2015

B4X:

Sub MainForm_CloseRequest (EventData As Event)
   tray.AddTrayIcon(icon1)
End Sub

matek · Nov 25, 2015

thank you Erel. I have another question, how to make the application after minimizing will be not in the taskbar but it will be only in tray

Erel · Nov 25, 2015

It is better to start a new thread for these questions.

ThRuST · Jan 25, 2017

How can I detect MouseEnter, MoveMove, MouseLeave in Trayicon? As a last option I am thinking of storing the mouse position at mouseclick and if the mouse leaves the specified zone it will act like a virtual event. But it would be easier if there's an event for this.

Erel · Jan 26, 2017

TrayIcon can only detect clicks. It doesn't track the mouse movement.

ThRuST · Jan 26, 2017

Ok thanks.

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