Platform SDK Shell, again with status bar and icons

Hi at all again,

ok i re-make my question.
My problem now is:
It is a way to know (perhaps via interface?) wich icons there are on the
status area over tha taskbar? also if this is possible then how can i get
some information about these icons? (datas submit with Shell_notify and
NOTIFYICONDATA structure).

thanks a lot

roberto

As far as I know, there is no API for this.

--
Jim Barry, MVP for Windows SDK

Microsoft clearly did not take into account that anyone could try to do
that. But it is possible. You need to hook the shell and extract and parse
the systray related messages. It is pretty complicated and undocumented
task. I am trying to do that for a long time, it works to me somehow but I
am affraid that it will not be 100% until Microsoft becomes more reliable to
the windows programmers. What is even worse, trying to do that is probbaly
out of law: The reverse engeneering is required to collect the informations
which Microsoft hides from programmers.

"Jim Barry" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > pe v diskusn prpevku



As far as I know, there is no API for this.

Yes, probably,
but why don't give a simple shell interface to manipulate the icons
information. Also only
to retireve the informetions (not to manipulate they).
We thought also and hook mechanism, but it seems it get more time.

thanks anyway

roberto




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