Dockable Launcher

[JJ1]

Hi All,

My boss wants me to create a 'launcher' program, which basically sits in the system tray and allows people to drag and drop icons onto a window, in order to make shortcut's. The user can then click the shortcut to launch the program.

I could really use a few suggestions on the following:

1. How can the program be placed in the system tray - with a menu when you right click it's icon and be dockable?

2. How can I capture the path of the program to launch?(E.g. c:\Program Files\Word.exe). Someone might drag a shortcut (e.g. c:\Documents and settings\word.lnk), which can't be launched by the shell. How can I overcome this?

Any help at all would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,


James.

 

[JJ1]

I've had some luck with this task so far!
The following proceedure lets me get the path of an application:

Private Sub Form_OLEDragDrop(Data As DataObject, Effect As Long, Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As Single, y As Single)

'if we have a file
If Data.GetFormat(vbCFFiles) Then
me.txtPath.text = Data.Files(1)
End if

End Sub

The the API "ShellExecute" will then execute any .lnk or .exe, given the path of the application.

I have just a few problems now...

Outlook, Internet Explorer and Microsoft word/excel/powerpoint etc are NOT returning suitable paths. These are critcal to the program.

Please...anyone, any ideas?

 

[MrMoocow]

Get the mb tray control from

http://www.vb2themax.com

It will allow u to place things in the tray. Brad,

http://www.moosoft.cjb.net

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[JJ1]

Brad,

Thanks for your advice, but I just can't find the "mb tray control" on that site.

Could you give me an exact URL?

Many thanks,

James.

 

[MrMoocow]

No prob,

http://www.vb2themax.com/Downloads/files/MBTray.zip

Was under the file bank section.
Brad,

http://www.moosoft.cjb.net

Free mp3 player,games and more.