ASTC component provides an easy way to enable your VB, VC++, C#, VB.NET, or other COM environment applications to put an icon in system tray area It supports many advanced features such as show balloons and anitmated icons.
ASTC consists of one object: TrayIcon object.
TrayIcon object provides the ability to put your icon in system tray. It supports show and hide your icon, a tooltip balloon pointing to your icon in system tray area,also supports animateing your icon in system tray,change the tooltip in run time and popup specified menu.
Trayicon Object Features:
Show-Hide the icon in system Tray area.
Show the icon in animation state.
Assign a tooltip for the icon.
Check the current state of the icon [visible or invisible].
Show a balloon tool tip even displaying on win9x .
Change the icon and tooltip in run time.
Ability to assign a popup menu for a particular event happen to the icon even displaying on win9x.
Track Popup menu so whenever your program lost focus the icon popup menu will be closed.
Show more than one icon in the system tray.
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