🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all, I posted the message below to the 
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui forum but there a bit slack over there 
and never want to share an knowledge.  Just wondering if anyone here has any 
ideas.

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Just wondering if anyone could help me with a problem / potential bug that 
i'm experiencing.  I have a system tray application that should run when a 
user first logs on.  The application displays Balloon Pop-ups to notify the 
user of certain events.  Within these balloons, I want to display my own 
icons instead of using the default NIIF_ icons. Note, this is for use on 
Windows XP / 2003.

I have three issues / problems.

Firstly, in the documentation, it states that to set a custom icon in a 
balloon you set the dwInfoFlags to NIIF_USER, and then set the hIcon to the 
icon in question.  However when i do this, the icon changes but not to the 
one i specify.  For example, if i set it to be my applicaitons icon, i get 
the wi-fi icon being displayed.  It sees to be the last icon that is shown, 
get's displyed in my balloon.  I resolved it by setting the uFlah i.e. 
uFlags = NIF_INFO | NIF_ICON;

Secondly, when i do this, it causes the system tray icon to change as well. 
The only way i can resolve this issue is to immediatly set the system tray 
icon back to what it was before the balloon was displayed.  This is ok but 
it's a bit sloppy.

Finally, when my application first starts up, i still get the wrong icon 
being displayed in the balloon.

My code looks like this:

         nid.uFlags          = NIF_INFO | NIF_ICON;
         nid.dwInfoFlags = NIIF_USER;
         HICON hIcon   = (HICON)::LoadImage(HInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(101), 
IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR);
         nid.hIcon  = hIcon;
         bRtn = (bool)Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, &nid);
         ::DestroyIcon(hIcon);

Can anyone point me in the write direction here - if there anything obviouse 
that i'm doing wrong here.

Many thanks in advance,

Mike C