how to show "NotifyIconOverflowWindow" window?

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I want to show NotifyIconOverflowWindow in some program, and I tried to like this:

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pop = FindWindow((LPCWSTR)L"NotifyIconOverflowWindow", (LPCWSTR)"");
ShowWindow(pop, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

But if I do not click taskbar and popup NotifyIconOverflowWindow at first. There is nothing in my NotifyIconOverflowWindow created by my program.

Posted 20-Jan-11 3:09am

yiqixuxu

Updated 20-Jan-11 3:58am

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Stephen Hewitt · Answer 1 · 2011-01-20T03:19:00

Solution 1

Firstly, what the hell is all the casting for? In the first case it does nothing (why cast something to what it already is?) and in the second it's a bug (casting like this doesn't make a narrow string a wide one). In fact the second cast is probably the casue of the problem as wide strings need a two byte NULL. Try this:

pop = FindWindow(L"NotifyIconOverflowWindow", NULL);
ShowWindow(pop, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Stop casting!

Posted 20-Jan-11 3:19am

Stephen Hewitt

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yiqixuxu 20-Jan-11 10:19am

I think nothing about casting...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-11 11:12am

Good point (my 5), looks like a big misconception about casting (and typing?)

Nish Nishant · Answer 2 · 2011-01-20T03:57:00

Solution 2

Looks like the window contents are rendered the first time the window is popped up via the triangular button in the task bar. So if that has not happened, then obviously you will see a blank window when you show the window in this manner.

You could try sending a left mouse click to the button though, that way you will always be sure that the window will be properly rendered when it shows up.

Posted 20-Jan-11 3:57am

Nish Nishant

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yiqixuxu 20-Jan-11 19:41pm

yes, but I donot want do this,maybe other way?

Nish Nishant 20-Jan-11 20:06pm

That's the way Windows works. Every double click event is basically two really fast single clicks - and this generates one single click event followed by a double click event. There's no way around it really.