Windows Tray Icon - Java Implementation!

About?

• Any icon can be used. You just need a 16x16 GIF/JPG image!
• Tooltip is displayed when the user mouses over the icon
• ActionListener support (callback Java method when user clicks Tray Icon)
• Popup menu support (AWT menu, Swing menu, ...)
• Internationalization support
• Your applications window can be hidden (removed from the task bar) until the user clicks the Tray Icon!
• Support for Windows XP style Balloon Messages
• C++ source code for the native library included
• Unicode and Internationalization support
• Small demo app included

Screenshots

• More screenshots

Installation

• Download the .zip file from the download section (unzip it using WinZip or unzip from Cygwin)
• Install it in a directory of your choice (C:\TrayIcon in this example)
• Open a MS-DOS or Command prompt and say (Sun Java 1.2.x and above, see README for other platforms)
cd C:\TrayIcon
javac demo\awt\TestTrayIcon.java
java demo.awt.TestTrayIcon
or:
cd C:\TrayIcon
javac demo\swing\SwingTrayIcon.java
java demo.swing.SwingTrayIcon
• The demo source is in demo\
• The TrayIcon main class is com\jeans\trayicon\WindowsTrayIcon.java
• The native C++ code is in com\jeans\trayicon\c++\WindowsTrayIcon.cpp

Version info

• Complete TrayIcon version history

• 1.7.1 Released 11/01/02
• Works with Java 1.4
• Bug fix for setCheck(boolean selected)
• Dependency on jvm.lib removed (thanks to Justin Chapweske)
• Includes some support for using a Swing popup menu
• 1.7.2 Released 12/17/02
• Transparency bug fix for Windows ME
• Fixed naming problem with setWindowsMessageCallback (introduced in 1.7.1)
• 1.7.3 Released 01/03/03
• Bold and disabled AWT menu item support
• Fixed bug in keepAlive()
• 1.7.4 Released 01/08/03
• setAlwaysOnTop implemented for Swing menu (thanks to Mike Hicks)
• SwingTrayIcon demo updated with nice Swing menu
• 1.7.5 Released 02/20/03
• Support for MouseListeners (icon can respond to double clicks)
• TrayIcons are not lost anymore when Explorer crashes ;-) (thanks to Laurent Hauben)
• JAWT is only used if Swing Menu is used
• 1.7.6 Released 08/17/03
• Support for Balloon Messages
• Bug in Swing menu fixed
• 1.7.7 Released 10/23/03
• Unicode support for native components
• 1.7.8 Released 11/2/03
• Bugfix for 95/98/Me
• 1.7.8b Released 11/26/03
• Fixed bug in Balloon message that caused VM to crash
• Fixed bug in Balloon message specific to Windows 2000
• 1.7.8c Released 01/12/04
• Swing menu is now set Always-On-Top

Hard & Soft?

• This software was tested on platform:
• MS Windows 95B, 98, ME, 2K, NT4, XP
• Sun's Java 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
• Sun's JDK/JRE 1.1.8
• If something does not work, don't hesitate to mail me (jan.struyf@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)

See also: README

Downloads

• TrayIcon-1.7.9b.zip (Unicode support)