Application not ready when maximised from system tray.

[GKFC]

Hi,

I have an application that immediately launches into the system tray but does some backend work and isn't actually "ready" for a few seconds.

If the user tries to double click the tray icon it will either be unresponsive or even crash the application (i.e. they have to CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill the process). On Windows ME it can cause the application to display a green background when maximised.

What are the best ways of dealing with this issue?

I was thinking of doing something like MSN Messenger where I essentially "lock" the application and display another icon in the tray until it is ready, but is it possible to dynamically alter the system tray icon?

If not, what else does anyone suggest?

Cheers,

G.

[SWFKit]

Please don't launch it into the system tray until it's ready.

[GKFC]

....

OK cool, so when someone double clicks my .exe, how do I block it from running in the system tray?

Cheers,

G.

[SWFKit]

Please don't check the [Application settings]->[behavior]->[show in system tray] option.

Instead, please use the "Application.Systray.add" method to run your app into the system tray in the ffish script after the initializing of your app.

[GKFC]

;D

Thanks very much I will try this method.

Cheers,

G.

[GKFC]

Hi,

Quick update:

Because SWFKit 2.2r2 doesn't show the application icon when ALT+TAB'ing in WinXP I have to use a previous version of SWFKit for this application.

And since SWFKit v1 doesn't have an Application object I can't use this method...

Cheers,

G.