How to make a program run in the taskbar?????

How to make a program run in the taskbar?????

• Nick1435

  Okay, so for instance, what would I put into the Name, Type, Scope, and Value fields if I wanted to keep the font size and color stored
  

• ShadowRayz

  Me.FormClosing

  My.Settings.myfont = TextBox1.Font

  Takes the current textbox1.font, no matter

  how many times it was changed during running

  the program, and saves it to the 'one entry only'

  My.Settings.myfont storage location, replacing

  whatever the previous value was.

  Most all settings available in the designer

  only hold one value. (With the exception of

  the System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection.)

  Normally settings are automatically loaded when a program starts,

  and automatically saved once as the program exits.

  You can manually control this however using

  My.Application.SaveMySettingsOnExit = False

  My.Settings.Reload()

  My.Settings.Save()

  You have to explicitly assign the setting value to something for it to be used:

  TextBox1.Font = My.Settings.myfont

  and you have to explicitly assign the setting a new value if you want a new value

  when settings are saved:

  My.Settings.myfont = TextBox1.Font

  
  
  

• vicky_dceian

  You can keep all of these in the settings configuration file. Double click the "My Project" icon in your solution explorer. There should be a tab called "Settings", click that. In there you can add all of the user settings you like, such as, last entry, form colors, etc....

  Then, when you need to get the data from these, simply type My.Settings.LastEntry to get the value.

  
  
  

• Chris Spain

  Tall Dude, Thank you soooo much for the help.  My program is almost done now thanks to you. 

  I do have two more question for you.

  Q1:
  I have one option in my program that allows users to check the status on their last entry.  What would be the easiest and most effective way to store that information

    Would u just go of off the last entry posted to the db or would u write it to a small file somewhere

  Q2:
  Also,  how would you allow users to change some preferences on the program and save it so that it will look at those prefs each time it launches

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  The most important part of this is the first question and I can address the second question with and update at a later point in time.

  
  

• kats

  When something is saved in the "MyFont" (for example), if it is changed will it overwrite anything that is written in that field already

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  To give you an idea of what I am doing:  I'm writing a small software piece to track any errors that any of my employee's might encounter, during a normal day, so that I can keep a running total of everything.

  My prog captures Username, Time, Date, CompName and allows users to input Program, Description, and Screenshot of error message.

  The program, after the Submit button is clicked, writes the information to a local database and informs myself or my fellow co-worker that a new ticket is open.

  This software will track all notes that the "Techs" enter, if they do, and the time it took to correct the error. Also will track how long the ticket was open for.

  
  

• NewASPNETUser

  Okay, now that you have helped me figure that out. Here are a couple more questions regarding that item.

  1. I have the icon showing in the system tray now. I want to be able to single MouseClick on it and a menu show up. Can this happen

  2. If I double click the icon in the system tray I want it to open the main menu back up.

  3. If the user clicks on the minimize, can the program "hide" or minimize to the system tray

  Thanks for all of your help.

  
  

• wuzzle

  Do you mean the notification area (ie by the clock, sometimes called the task tray or system tray)

  In order to show some peice of your application there, you need only use the NotifyIcon class. You can find a quick example of how to do that here.

  
  
  

• nikos_22

  Add a ContextMenuStrip1.

  Add some menu items to the ContextMenuStrip1.

  Set the NotifyIcon's ContextMenuStrip to ContextMenuStrip1.

  Then:

  Public Class Form1

  Private Sub NotifyIcon1_MouseDoubleClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, _

  ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.MouseDoubleClick

  Me.Visible = True

  Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized ' or normal

  End Sub

  Private Sub Form1_SizeChanged(ByVal sender As Object, _

  ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.SizeChanged

  If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then

  Me.Visible = False

  End If

  End Sub

  End Class

  
  
  

• xavito

  I know you can do it, but don't know how to, but someone will
  

• dickP

  In the settings tab:

  Name: Myfont

  Type: System.Drawing.Font

  Scope: User

  Value: Microsoft Sans Serif, 12pt, style=Bold (Or double click the

  white area in value for a dialog)

  Name: MyColor

  Type: System.Drawing.Color

  Scope: User

  Value: Tomato (Or double click the

  white area in value for a dialog)

  Then some code:

  Public Class Form1

  Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, _

  ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing

  My.Settings.myfont = TextBox1.Font

  My.Settings.mycolor = TextBox1.ForeColor

  My.Settings.Save()

  End Sub

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, _

  ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

  TextBox1.Font = My.Settings.myfont

  TextBox1.ForeColor = My.Settings.mycolor

  End Sub

  Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _

  ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

  MsgBox("Choose a new font and color for the textbox")

  If FontDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then

  TextBox1.Font = FontDialog1.Font

  End If

  If ColorDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then

  TextBox1.ForeColor = ColorDialog1.Color

  End If

  End Sub

  End Class

  
  
  
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