Thread: Is there a function to get how many tray icons there are and there text

Is there any win32 functions that can get how many tray icons there are displayed and the text of them?

Originally Posted by oogabooga

There must be some way to do it.

I was able to get the hwnd of the tray like this:

Code:

    HWND hwndTaskBar = FindWindowEx(NULL, NULL, "Shell_TrayWnd", NULL);
    HWND hwndTray = FindWindowEx(hwndTaskBar, NULL, "TrayNotifyWnd", NULL);

With that hwnd, I was able to kill the tray like so:

Code:

SendMessage(hwndTray, WM_DESTROY, 0, 0);

Hopefully it'll come back when I reboot!

Anyway, there should be some way of asking the tray what it contains. I'm not sure what kind of control it is or if it's a standard control at all (a species of toolbar maybe?).

thats cool , would there be away to select which 1 to close as it seems all have them have closed

The code I posted actually just closes the tray itself, not the programs whose icons are displayed in it. I don't know how to get the actual info about the programs. I recall being able to get the number of icons currently in the tray but that's it.