Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
you can also check the example at your local lazarus dir. I think it's something like lazarus/examples/trayicon -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
FWIW, I use XN Resource Editor to create my main form icon to show in windows and that seems to work fine (as does windres for creating the resource) so I wonder if its anything to to do with using windres or not ?? Ok, the last difference that I see from here between your project and the example is the icon file. That shouldn't cause any problem, but just in case try to use the .ico file from the example on your project and see if it works. Also try to compile and run the example project. Those things should put the problem on a corner. Anyway, it's just a question of logic, if the example works, how is your program different? -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 3:56 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources windres complains it can't find cpp, which means that your path is wrong, otherwise he would have found it. before executing the line above fix the path: PATH=m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\ The .res file needs to be generate with windres, you can't use another tool AFAIK. Thanks Felipe, I added the lazarus bin folder to my path as you suggested and that allowed me to create the .res file. However, the icon still will not show up in the task bar. I traced through the code and it is getting called (tried both TrayIcon.Show and TrayIcon.Visible := true), but is not showing up in task bar. FWIW, I use XN Resource Editor to create my main form icon to show in windows and that seems to work fine (as does windres for creating the resource) so I wonder if its anything to to do with using windres or not ?? Thanks again, -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
On Feb 11, 2008 3:56 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources windres complains it can't find cpp, which means that your path is wrong, otherwise he would have found it. before executing the line above fix the path: PATH=m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\ The .res file needs to be generate with windres, you can't use another tool AFAIK. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: TIcon isn't fully implemented on Windows so it doesn't give a HICON handle that TTrayIcon needs. See bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10305 The wiki page explains how to make TTrayIcon work everywhere: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TrayIcon#Demonstration_program_1 thanks, I tried this using an icon that was already inside a .rc file for windows. I use this for icon of main form in Windows anyway. I added an additional icon to the resource and followed the instructions on the wiki and still no success unfortunately. SystrayIcon.Icon.Handle := LoadIcon(HINSTANCE, MAKEINTRESOURCE(101)); SystrayIcon.Visible := true; I simply added another icon to the resource and called it 101, but obviously that is not the way to go. Must the icon be in its own resource file or can it be placed in the existing resource file I already have? Also, if its dependent on a handle, can I just load an icon from file and then pass the handle of that to the TTrayIcon.Icon.Handle property? I don't think this is the case either since I have tried this too with no success. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 2:43 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I simply added another icon to the resource and called it 101, but obviously that is not the way to go. Must the icon be in its own resource file or can it be placed in the existing resource file I already have? I think that being on a separate resource file makes no difference. Did you rebuild your rc file? Yes, I rebuilt and opened it up with different editors (VS2005, XNResource) and the Icon is there labeled 101 as in the example. Actually, I had to use XNResource editor to place the icon because the windres errors out when I try to use it, not sure what I'm doing wrong with that: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources At any rate, the icon is definitely inside the resource file. I also tried loading an icon and handing the handle to TTrayIcon and that didn't seem to work either. I also tried using the icon suppled with the demo thinking maybe it was something with the icon, but that does not work either. I also tried changing the icon ID in the resource from integer to string value just in case, but that doesn't work either. I'm just not sure what I could be doing wrong. Seems I will have to deploy the sample application in /examples and show that when I need to show a try icon ;) -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
On Feb 11, 2008 2:43 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I simply added another icon to the resource and called it 101, but obviously
that is not the way to go. Must the icon be in its own resource file or can
it
be placed in the existing resource file I already have?
I think that being on a separate resource file makes no difference.
Did you rebuild your rc file?
Recent fpc versions can build it directly from the rc file, but I
don't remeber when that was added. I still do it the old way. Make a
script that will call windres to built it:
PATH=path/to/fpc/bin/dir
windres -i myresource.rc -o myresource.res
And then {$R Resource.res}
Also, if its dependent on a handle, can I just load an icon from file and then
pass the handle of that to the TTrayIcon.Icon.Handle property?
Sure, just put a HICON handle there. I never did it this way, so I
don't know what function to use. You can read the msdn docs to see
what functions return a HICON:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensafe=activeq=site%3Amsdn2.microsoft.com+HICONbtnG=Search
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Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
TIcon isn't fully implemented on Windows so it doesn't give a HICON handle that TTrayIcon needs. See bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10305 The wiki page explains how to make TTrayIcon work everywhere: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TrayIcon#Demonstration_program_1 thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: TIcon isn't fully implemented on Windows so it doesn't give a HICON handle that TTrayIcon needs. See bug report: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10305 The wiki page explains how to make TTrayIcon work everywhere: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TrayIcon#Demonstration_program_1 thanks, Thanks Felipe, Wiki was was down last night so I didn't run across the article, just looking at the source. -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] TTrayIcon problem
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 3:56 PM, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M:\lazarus\projects\maestrom:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres -i M :\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.rc -o m:\lazarus\projects\maestro\tray.res gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\windres: no resources windres complains it can't find cpp, which means that your path is wrong, otherwise he would have found it. before executing the line above fix the path: PATH=m:\lazarus\IDE\fpc\2.2.0\bin\i386-win32\ The .res file needs to be generate with windres, you can't use another tool AFAIK. Ah, well that could be the problem. I'll try it with that command. Thanks a bunch, -- Warm Regards, Lee Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
