Hi,
I have been working on a background application for a week(not video game at all). The application is done but i would like to add some features like reducing the window to system tray and making the wintow tab disappear(hide window). The thing is that my background app has 2 status : activated or not activated(like a firewall for an exemple). I would like the icon in system tray to change weather the application is activated or not.
I have read the posts and thanks a lot to cryptoman for what he has done(next link).
Main post about system tray :
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=51995&b=8
(very funny message Jess T by the way, I have been using DB/DBpro for 10 years, never thought I would use that kind of tools until now)
More about changing icon :
In cryptoman's work the icon which is displayed in the system tray seems to be the default icon of the exe. We can define it while we develop the program but I don't see how I could change it while the program is running.
So if anyone knows a way to contact cryptoman or has the answer...
off-board:
While I was making the application I have been going through a lot of posts in which people said DBpro was not designed to create desktop app(cpu usage,functionnalities). I have to say am really satisfied by the result. Every five minute, my app go fetch on the internet some information by downloading URL pages and generate a web page which is upload on an FTP. About the cpu usage, it's kept at 0% except every five minutes when it reaches 2% for the update, it was just about not displaying the whole screen at each loop...^^ I know I suck
(still my app has no interactive button: display changes only happen after a click so it made the job easier for me but lowering cpu usage with interactive screens might be more complicated). Anyway my point is DBpro is still a pretty good langage, I guess it would have taken at least 2 months to do the same thing in C++ or Java and thousands of codelines instead of 1000.
Thanks for reading
(Am french sorry for the translation)
