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10456 :: How to make a tray system icons?

• ploxotnuj1 (orginal) [2023-09-03T00:20:38+02:00] view original

  How to make a tray system icons? i googled and only found: https://github.com/treeform/windy this does not suit me because I write on another graphical framework (webui) I also found this post https://github.com/nim-lang/needed-libraries/issues/83 but I have no idea how to use tray.c in nim-lang. Tried with c2nim but doesn't work. Can you help?

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• Hobbyman (orginal) [2023-09-03T01:31:49+02:00] view original

  I am not very informed on this but is that not arranged in the desktop environment. Do you use windows of something else?

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• Isofruit (orginal) [2023-09-03T01:33:48+02:00] view original

  It is a Desktop Environment thing as far as I'm aware. In Linux it will require you to deal with KDE and Gnome e.g. separately (and no idea how the other 5 or so handle it), unless they implemented an XDG desktop portal for this while I wasn't looking.

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• ploxotnuj1 (orginal) [2023-09-03T10:55:55+02:00] view original

  I have windows

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• treeform (orginal) [2023-09-04T19:01:39+02:00] view original

  Tray icons are a pretty uncommon feature in GUI apps. You will probably have to call the OS apis directly. I would look at the win32 API docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/nf-shellapi-shell_notifyiconw and examples and how we do that in windy: https://github.com/treeform/windy/blob/master/src/windy/platforms/win32/platform.nim#L1278-L1350

  Its not simple I did ask chatGPT and it produced even more code: https://chat.openai.com/share/52b5c304-20b9-495a-8d9e-534b2d79771d

  I hope that helps.

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