Hello Chris - 

SAD, your experiences are on the same level as mine.

I figured out part of the problem is that NotifyIcon is NOT a control,
but a component. I also always get the 0.0mouse coordinates (VERY
frustrating).

I am thinking on other, more limited lines now - finding out and
intercepting the Windows message for the left click, and turn it into a
right click, so that the context menu is actually created - that might e
something that MIGHT work, if I ever find a way to easily intercept the
messages. That's limited to my whish of having the context menu shown,
though.

I will keep the list posted - I am not the "big bad guy" only bullying
people :-) Thanks for your email.

Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
Microsoft MVP (.NET / C#)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gagne, Chris [mailto:cgagne@[...].CA] 
Sent: Freitag, 23. November 2001 16:06
To: DOTNET@[...].COM
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Question: How to show a menu on a NotifyIcon when
th e user clicks (left, once)?

Thomas:

Your not the only one that's gone through this.  I've managed to get the
menu to pop on a left click of the tray icon however it's ALWAYS
displayed
in the 0,0 co-ords of my screen.  I've even tried to use a fixed point
structure for my popup call to no avail.  I was thinking along similar
lines
where I thought I'd need to grab the co-ords of my mouse and construct a
point struct to pass into the call...however as I said this wouldn't
have
been my solution since passing in dummy values in the point struct never
helped either.  I apologize for not being able to help but I wanted to
ask
if you do infact find a solution would you be so kind as to post it to
the
list or e-mail me directly, as I will do the same.  Might I add though
I've
dug deep to find a solution to this and as far as I can tell there just
isn't one at this time.

Best of luck.

Chris Gagne MCP
Programmer Analyst
Information Technology Group
Richard Ivey School of Business
University of Western Ontario
cgagne@[...].ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:t.tomiczek@[...].COM]
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:04 AM
To: DOTNET@[...].COM
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Question: How to show a menu on a NotifyIcon when
th e user clicks (left, once)?


Sad - actually I was not really expecting to see a solution.

I see the following problems:
(a) I need mouse coordinages. The only ones I can get are relative to -
the window hosting the NotifyIcon, and this is sadly "irrelevant" as it
is using the wrong coordination system.
(b) I need a container to show the Menu (or whatever else) for, and this
is again a problem. The NotifyIcon does not seem to be able to provide
one, and any that I could get from the window are again - well -
"wrong".

I will try to communicate this into Microsoft. It seems to be a design
issue, basically that the NotifyIcon is not "feature complete" in terms
of providing all functionality that a window does.

Technically, I can definitely see the reason, but it would have been
nice to be able to at least trigger the ContextMenu.

Sadly, besides MouseDown, MouseMove, Mouse Up and Click/DoubleCliek,
there is no event to handle :-)

I put this onto the "lets ask" list for MS :-) I think a couple of
people might have a problem with this, when they duplicate "semi
standard behaviour".

Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
Microsoft MVP (.NET / C#)

-----Original Message-----
From: Heath Ryan [mailto:ryan.heath@[...].NL]
Sent: Freitag, 23. November 2001 11:50
To: DOTNET@[...].COM
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Question: How to show a menu on a NotifyIcon when
th e user clicks (left, once)?

Hi Thomas,

Now you're very clear to me! :)

Reading your prev post, i see the subtle hint of the left click...

Sorry cant help either, have no vs.net at hand now...

Perhaps you could use MouseUp instead, just a guess...

Regards
// Ryan


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