Shell_NotifyIcon problems

[Guest]

Hi everyone,

I've been able to display 16x16 256 colors icons on a Smartphone and it's
working very well. However, when my application is minimized, my icon is
removed from the taskbar. The whole point in having notification icon was to
be able to notify the user while the application was minimized (background).
Is there anything I can do to insure that my icons will always be displayed
on the taskbar?

My application needs to run on both PocketPC and Smartphone and the exact
same code working for the Smartphone isn't working on the PocketPC. Is there
something different about those 2 devices regarding notification icons? What
should I do to make it work?

Thanks everyone,

Sylvain Fortin

 

[Guest]

Hi again,

One small correction to my previous post. The icon will be removed on the
home page (start screen) and when you make a call, etc. The icon will be
displayed in regular applications, which is better than nothing. Anyway, if
there's a way to make it work in all the screens, how would like to know how.

Thanks again,

Sylvain Fortin

 

[Robert Levy [MS]]

Unfortunately, there's not really a good solution (which is why we advise
against using NotifyIcon on Smartphone). There are a limited number of
slots up there and each is reserved for a specific OS purpose so custom
icons are pretty much guaranteed to run into collision problems.

This is definitely something we're looking at fixing in the future...