Find the taskbar and system tray window handles #47
The task bar is a top level window which has class name "Shell_TrayWnd". We can find it using the Windows FindWindow API function as follows:
function TaskbarHandle: THandle; begin Result := FindWindow('Shell_TrayWnd', nil); end;
The system tray is a child window of the task bar which has class name "TrayNotifyWnd". Because it's a child window, we need to use the FindWindowEx Windows API function, passing the task bar's handle as the parent:
function TrayHandle: THandle; begin Result := FindWindowEx(TaskbarHandle, 0, 'TrayNotifyWnd', nil); end;
You can find both these routines (TaskbarHandle & TrayHandle) in the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets Database.
Author: | Peter Johnson |
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Contributor: | Peter Johnson |
Added: | 2007/08/14 |
Last updated: | 2013/10/12 |