I'm using Shell_NotifyIcon to put a icon in the task bar status area at the bottom of the screen. The code works correctly when I build and deploy to a WM5 device using VS2005. You see the icon in the bottom of the screen and if it is clicked my applicaiton gets notified.
When I build and deploy the same code and project to a PPC 2003 device the icon is invisible. I have verified that it has been place on the task bar, if you click where it should be my application gets notified.
I verified that Shell_NotifyIcon is returning true, implying success. I verified that the icon handle is not null in the NOTIFYICONDATA structure.
The icon I am trying to use includes 16 X 16 16 color and 32 X 32 16 color images. I tried adding 256 color images to the same icon. No change.
Anyone have any idea why the icon is invisible on a PPC 2003 device.
Shell_NotifyIcon icon invisible when building with VS 2005 for PPC 2003 target
Dan Dittenhafer
Do you use CreateIconIndirect or LoadImage
Icons createt at runtime with CreateIconIndirect sometimes disappear if set with NIM_MODIFY and the same icon handle. This is a bug in Windows Mobile (not in CEBase).
LoadImage loads the first icon image from a multiple image resource. So if your icon file contains a 16x16 image and a 32x32 image, make sure that the 16x16 image is the first one (or use a single 16x16-Icon).
MarkNi