By James Cooke

Summary: One main benefit of Windows programming is being able to have multiple applications open at once. The problem with this is that if you have ten programs active at once, you have ten programs cluttering up your task bar, and ten icons to Alt-Tab through to land on your desired application. So - the system tray to the rescue! This article by James Cooke (not Gordon Smith, as earlier indicated - my apologies James! ed.) covers the basic steps required for parking an app in the system tray, and responding to events on that icon.

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