[Mono-osx] SysTray Compatibility

[Miguel de Icaza]

The functionality was never implemented in mono's winforms

On Friday, December 21, 2012, neilt wrote:

> I'm trying to write an app that uses the system tray, that can be used on
> Windows and Mac. I've checked compatibility with MoMa and it comes out
> fine.
> I've run it in Mono in Windows fine, but on OSX it errors out with the
> following.
>
> Unhandled Exception:
> System.NotImplementedException: The requested feature is not implemented.
>   at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUICarbon.SystrayAdd (IntPtr hwnd,
> System.String tip, System.Drawing.Icon icon, System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip&
> tt) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI.SystrayAdd (IntPtr handle, System.String
> tip, System.Drawing.Icon icon, System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip& tt) [0x00000]
> in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.ShowSystray () [0x00000] in <filename
> unknown>:0
>   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.set_Visible (Boolean value) [0x00000]
> in <filename unknown>:0
>   at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check)
> System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon:set_Visible (bool)
>   at SystrayTest.Form1.InitializeComponent () [0x00000] in <filename
> unknown>:0
>   at SystrayTest.Form1..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) SystrayTest.Form1:.ctor ()
>   at SystrayTest.Program.Main () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.NotImplementedException: The
> requested feature is not implemented.
>   at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUICarbon.SystrayAdd (IntPtr hwnd,
> System.String tip, System.Drawing.Icon icon, System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip&
> tt) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI.SystrayAdd (IntPtr handle, System.String
> tip, System.Drawing.Icon icon, System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip& tt) [0x00000]
> in <filename unknown>:0
>   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.ShowSystray () [0x00000] in <filename
> unknown>:0
>   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.set_Visible (Boolean value) [0x00000]
> in <filename unknown>:0
>   at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check)
> System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon:set_Visible (bool)
>   at SystrayTest.Form1.InitializeComponent () [0x00000] in <filename
> unknown>:0
>   at SystrayTest.Form1..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>   at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) SystrayTest.Form1:.ctor ()
>   at SystrayTest.Program.Main () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>
> I'm assuming regardless of what MoMa says that the System Tray is not
> supported. How is this normally handled. Is this not possible with a native
> windows app, and needs to be GTK# or something?
>
>
>
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