The tag "tray" refers mostly to the GUI system notification area (called system tray) and rarely to the disc tray of an optical disc drive. Better use tag "trayicon" in case of a single tray icon and "notification-area" or "system-tray" in other cases about the system tray.
Questions tagged [tray]
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Java look and feel for tray does not work
I use UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); to set a LAF and it works fine. But this time I also implemented a tray and it looks ugly - like Motif. How can I set LAF for the tray?

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Is there a way of finding uID of a specific application?
I am trying to catch the uID variable from the NOTIFYICONDATA struct, used in Shell_NotifyIcon function (shellapi.h). I got the hWnd of the process window and hIcon the handle of the icon.
The application does not provide a way to hide the system…
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pygtk: how to switch window_state from popup_menu
This is my code:
def configure_event(self, widget):
if self.is_hiding:
self.window.present()
else:
self.window.iconify()
def delete_event(self, widget, data=None):
gtk.main_quit()
return True
def popup_menu(self):
…

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How to detect if CD is in CD Rom Tray using win32 Visual C++
I am trying to get my Win32 Visual C++ App to check if my CD Rom Tray has a CD Rom in it using MCI functions, and if it does, proceed. If not, provide the user with an error. How can I check if a CD is inserted in the CD Rom Tray?

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How do I check my subprocess is still running correctly?
I am unable to post code for this sorry, but I am trying to run a python script at all times from another python script which creates a system tray. This system tray will show if the program is correctly running or not.
I have tried a few methods so…

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Send postscript file pages to different trays
I am trying to print a postscript file where the first page has to use one tray and the second page has to use a second one.
I have tried this using setDevice but it does not work. The printer either sends all pages to one tray or to another but…

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How can background processes interact with users in PC/Mac environments?
Currently we are using System Tray/Notification Tray to interact with users from a background process. I wanted to know if there are more modern and recommended ways to do the same.
Something that would apply to both Windows and Mac?

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Print on Specific Tray in Illustrator using Javascript on Mac OSX
I'm quite a rookie in developping Javascript for Illustrator and I need to optimize the printing actions using Javascript.
I'm working on Mac OSX using Illustrator and I have to print Paper and Transparent Films from the same network printer on…

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Win7 systray style popup
Hello guys
I have an applcation that sets itself to 0 opacity on Form1_load which then changes to 1 when the user left clicks on the NotifyIcon. I would also like the form to center itself directy above the notifyicon like the Win7 speakers, power,…

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GTK+ tray/status menu not showing - arrows displayed instead
Trying to add a tray menu to a GTK+ (2.24) application on Windows 10, in C. Code is exactly as in this example, except the icon. The result is as follows, menu is not visible and there are up and down arrows instead:
In this example (French forum,…

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Print automatically from PHP web app, from specific tray?
I have a PHP web application which generates HTML pages meant to be printed through a single printer and from a specific tray.
Currently the users have to print these pages through the browser and go through printer settings to select the tray.
Is…

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PyQt4 Tray Icon Problem when showing QLabel
When the following code runs, the tray application can pop-up the AboutWindow QLabel object in the middle of screen. But when closing this screen, the whole application is shutdown with no errors (the tray icon disappears and the console log shows…

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Tray icon app to be closed from service
So the title is quite self explanatory.
I have this one service written in C++ that creates a tray icon with CreateProcessAsUser and everything seems to work fine.
The problem comes when stopping the service, which I also want to stop the tray icon…

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How to pin an application to the System Tray during its msi installation?
I am looking for a way to pin my application's icon to the system tray during my application's msi installation. Dropbox seems to do this exact thing during its installation so I am confident that it is possible.
After the msi is finished running,…

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Electron App Error: EACCES: permission denied, open
[20:25:45] Using gulpfile ~/Desktop/GitHub/electra/gulpfile.js
[20:25:45] Starting 'build-client-bundles'...
[20:25:45] Starting 'build-client-scss'...
[20:25:45] Starting 'build-client-html'...
[20:25:45] Starting…

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