From my experience, the system tray is generally used to maintain
visibility for a larger (often system-level) application that is not
currently running or showing on screen. I'm not sure that such use
cases would be common in a Pivot application.
In general, the DesktopApplicationContext window needs to be visible
in order for a user to interact with a Pivot app. The only time this
would not be the case is if the host frame is minimized (which
translates to a suspend() call to the Application). In this case, the
user *might* want to add an icon to the system tray, but that seems
unlikely, since the main application window is still visible on the
screen (albeit, in a minimized state).
I can definitely see a case for *launching* a Pivot application from
the system tray, but that would require the caller to manually invoke
DesktopApplicationContext.main(), and this could certainly be done
from within an AWT-based bootstrap application.
So, my take is that there is not much of value that Pivot could add on
top of the current JDK system tray support.
On Sep 4, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Todd Volkert wrote:
But would adding it to Pivot add anything? The windowing toolkit
part of
Pivot was created to satisfy deficiencies in AWT/Swing. The
collections
interfaces were created to satisfy deficiencies in the JDK
collections.
Conversely, we decided not to add any Pivot-specific preferences API
because
it already exists in the JDK, and there are no problem with it (I've
used
it, and it's brain-dead simple). Is there a deficiency in the
system tray
API that you're trying to solve? If not, then there's no real
reason to
touch it in the platform.
-T
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sandro Martini <[email protected]
>wrote:
I'm thinking on the ability for Pivot Desktop Applications to gain
access to the System Tray, without having to use directly AWT (as in
all other Pivot public functions).
Then for example we could add/remove and maybe enable/disable
application-specific menu elements ... i think should be possible
with
the System Tray (I've never used it, sorry).
More info needed ?
Some are here:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/systemtray/
Oh, maybe another interesting feature (i don't think it's already
implemented) that relies on Java 6 features is the ability for main
Windows to have a flag "Always stay over", could be interesting,
right
?
Some info here:
http://72.5.124.55/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Window.html#setAlwaysOnTop%28boolean%29
But maybe this could be more complex to do than the benefits it gives
... what do you say ?
Bye
