🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:35:48 +0200, "Ian Michael Ash" <ian@dchip.com>
wrote:

>I've seen the same thing with my applications, though in my case I don't
>care much about it.
>
>One thing you could try is kill the application in question. Then add an
>arbitrary icon to the tray bar and remove it. This should cause Windows to
>completely redraw the tray bar and remove any unused icons.
>
>Just an idea off the top of my head.
>Ian
>
>
>CG wrote in message ...
>>In my program, I make a system kill of an application that have an icon
>tray
>>in the traybar...
>>But the problem is that the icon isn't kill properly by the killed
>>application to the task icon remains here.
>>The only way to delete the tray icon is to move the mouse over the tray
>>icon, but I'd like to di it in my programm after I kill the application.
>>I try something like that :
>>
>>hwndTaskBar  = FindWindowEx (NULL, NULL, "Shell_TrayWnd", NULL);
>>hwndTrayWnd = FindWindowEx (hwndTaskBar , NULL, "TrayNotifyWnd", NULL);
>>
>>and then SendMEssage (hwndTrayWnd , WM_PAINT, 0, 0);
>>
>>but it doesn't work.
>>Any idea ???
>>Chris.
>>
>>
>
>

Just a guess, but try and (instead) do an 
InvalidateRect(hwndTrayWnd, NULL);

// CHRIS