Tray icon will not go away!

george d lake

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Jan 6, 2004, 11:13:20 AM1/6/04

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Hi,
I have an app that runs in the system tray. When I exit the app (from a
button on a form) the app ends but the icon stays in the tray.
Any ideas?

here is the code I use to end the app

Me.Close()

Me.Hide()

m_trayIcon.Icon = Nothing

End

Mike Bulava

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Jan 6, 2004, 11:21:15 AM1/6/04

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Set the Visable property of the NotifyIcon to false when your application is
closing.. Setting it to Nothing doesn't just make it go away..

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george d lake

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Jan 6, 2004, 11:27:45 AM1/6/04

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Ok, I changed it to:

m_trayIcon.Visible = False
End

and iut still stays there. I have to mouseover it in order for it to go
away.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

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Jan 6, 2004, 11:26:45 AM1/6/04

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* "george d lake" <gero...@cuartel15.com> scripsit:

Set the icon's 'Visible' property to 'False' before closing the form.

> End

Why do you use 'End' here?!

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Steven Van Dalem

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Jan 6, 2004, 11:40:59 AM1/6/04

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Change the order of you statements:
m_trayIcon.Visible = False
m_trayIcon = Nothing
Me.Hide()
Me.Close()

It's not a good idea to put statements after Me.Close(). If you do it that
way, you have to wait for GC to clean up after you, because m_trayIcon has
gone out of scope

Steven

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george d lake

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Jan 6, 2004, 11:43:16 AM1/6/04

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Its part of a function that ends the app when a button is clicked. I do not
want to use the "X" from the form. Is there a better way of doing this?

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Armin Zingler

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Jan 6, 2004, 12:28:31 PM1/6/04

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"george d lake" <gero...@cuartel15.com> schrieb

> Its part of a function that ends the app when a button is clicked. I
> do not want to use the "X" from the form. Is there a better way of
> doing this?

There are *only* better ways of doing this.

SCNR

(Sorry, I don't write more - Herfried will *g*)

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

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Jan 6, 2004, 6:40:03 PM1/6/04

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* "george d lake" <gero...@cuartel15.com> scripsit:

> Its part of a function that ends the app when a button is clicked. I do not
> want to use the "X" from the form. Is there a better way of doing this?

Pass a reference to the form instance and call its 'Close' method.

Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]

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Jan 6, 2004, 10:01:23 PM1/6/04

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George,
In addition to the others comments.

If your app a Form that happens to have a system tray icon. Or a System Tray
icon that happens to have a form?

In my app, which happens to be a System Tray icon that happens to have a
Form, I had to explicitly call Dispose on the Component where the NotifyIcon
was located, which indirectly caused Dispose to be called on the NotifyIcon.

Note the NotifyIcon was located in a class derived from Component. This
component was my startup object. It had a Shared Sub Main that created a new
instance of the component, then called Application.Run with no parameters.

Elsewhere in my program I would create an instance of a form and call
ShowDialog to show it, based on a Menu click event, the component owned the
Menu & NotifyIcon...

Hope this helps
Jay

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