How one can minimize a vi to the tray bar?

[AlexanderKhodarev]

I want to minimize my application to the tray bar. Is it possible to do by the means of labview? Or i have to use some activeX components?

[ian_fung]

This VI shall demonstrate what you wanna do...


Cheers!
ian f

[AlexanderKhodarev]

hello ian.
You have missed system TRAY bar and system TASK bar. The vi u've send is about TASK bar and i'm interested in minimizing to the TRAY.

[Enrique]

alexander;

Check the G Toolbox. Note the SysTray II utility, which sounds exactly like what you want.

Enrique

[AlexanderKhodarev]

Thank u Enrique for reply. I know about GToolBox, but it's not free, so it's not an option for me.

[Philip_Courtois]

Hi Alexander,

Please refer to this KnowledeBase for a solution using the "shell32.dll".

Best regards,
Philip C.
National Instruments

[rolfk]

alexander khodarev wrote:

> Thank u Enrique for reply. I know about GToolBox, but it's not free,
> so it's not an option for me.

Believe me, writing a SysTray extension for LabVIEW requires some
serious C programming for a CIN or DLL and debugging too. The costs of
above ToolBox is very reasonably.
If you do not have the C programming experience to do it on your own
(and quite some time for sure), and don't want to pay for such a toolkit
you probably best look for an entirely different solution.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[gmiles@inventeering.com]

		Requirements    Price: $29.95
		Application Software:	LabVIEW 7.0+
		Toolkits Software:
		Additional Software:
		Language's:	LabVIEW
	INVtray LabVIEW Toolkit allows the programmer to create a LabVIEW program that can be hidden from the task bar and accessed through the System Tray.  Comes with a sample VI that demonstrates all the features of the toolkit.