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Martin
Martin

Reputation: 40573

Location of app on the Windows 7 Taskbar

Is there a way to know where my application is located (in pixel) on the Windows 7 Taskbar? I am asking because I would like to show notification above the icon of my app in the Taskbar.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1473

Answers (3)

torn
torn

Reputation: 619

There algorithm you ask for is described in detail on this blog: How to find the position of a taskbar button on Windows 7 or Vista

Upvotes: 2

BoltClock
BoltClock

Reputation: 723378

While there are a number of P/Invokes available to locate an icon in the notification area, I don't think there are any to determine the location of an icon in the taskbar.

Anyway, the notification area is still there in Windows 7, so why not use a notification icon? In fact, the Windows UX Guidelines specify this:

  • Does your program need to display a notification? If so, you must use a notification area icon.

Or if you don't need a notification balloon to display textual information of a notification, you can try using an overlay icon instead.

Or flash the taskbar icon if it's critical that it has the user's attention.

Upvotes: 7

Robert Levy
Robert Levy

Reputation: 29073

The way to draw the user's attention to your taskbar icon is to make it flash using the FlashWindowEx API. http://pietschsoft.com/post/2009/01/26/CSharp-Flash-Window-in-Taskbar-via-Win32-FlashWindowEx.aspx

Upvotes: 2

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