Start application in system tray

[Mark Billig 0]

Is there a way to start an application in the system tray?

[Dave Nottage 624]

9 minutes ago, Mark Billig said:

Is there a way to start an application in the system tray?

Yes.. use a TTrayIcon component and set Application.ShowMainForm to False

[Mark Billig 0]

I am using 11.3 and have tried that but it did not start in the system tray.  I will do more testing.

[Dave Nottage 624]

3 minutes ago, Mark Billig said:

I am using 11.3 and have tried that but it did not start in the system tray.

Please show your code. Also remember that the Visible property on TTrayIcon needs to be set to True

[Mark Billig 0]

I have attached the code.

About.dfm

About.pas

MFUnit.dfm

MFUnit.pas

SetDPI.dpr

[Dave Nottage 624]

10 minutes ago, Mark Billig said:

I have attached the code.

Two problems:

 

You have -

Application.MainFormOnTaskbar := False;

Instead of - 

Application.ShowMainForm := False;

..and you have not assigned anything to the Icon property in the TTrayIcon component, which means it shows as a blank area, rather than a visible icon
 

[Mark Billig 0]

Thank you.  I better learn to read better.