Re: System Tray Icon with Free Threaded COM exe
You need to create a GUI thread and only handle the UI tasks
there. A GUI thread is any thread that spends most of its time
handling Windows messages (e.g. spinning its message loop).
If you need COM capabilities on that GUI thread, you can create
an STA COM apartment in it and explicitly marshal interface
pointers there from the MTA.
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Alexander Nickolov
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"geekgrrl" <geekgrrl71@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm following the CodeProject sample Placing an icon in the system
tray from an ATL COM server (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/atl/
system_tray.aspx).
I've added the necessary stuff, and my tray icon appears, with the tip
text but I do not receive any mouse events.
My ATL/COM executable is free threaded, and the window created by the
ShellHelper is CWindowImpl - am I correct is thinking I am not getting
my click events because I do not have a message pump?
Geekgrrl
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