System Tray Icon Sizes

[John Veldthuis]

What sizes can the system tray icons be?

I have a utility that I display a number as an icon. I do it by using drawstring into the icon
bitmap and displaying it. It is fine as long as the number is only 2 digits but when it hits 3 the
text runs off the end of the icon and you cant see it anymore. I get around this by making the font
smaller but it makes it hard to read then.

An ideal way would be to do something like the clock does but I am unable to work out how it does
it. Any ideas? The icon I use is a 32x32 which I cut down to 16x16. Another way I thought of doing
it was to make it 24x16 and that would give me the extra width but it does not work.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: System Tray Icon Sizes

"John Veldthuis" <whocares@you.s pam.me.com> schrieb:[color=blue]
> What sizes can the system tray icons be?[/color]

16 × 16 pixels.
[color=blue]
> I have a utility that I display a number as an icon. I do it by using
> drawstring into the icon
> bitmap and displaying it. It is fine as long as the number is only 2
> digits but when it hits 3 the
> text runs off the end of the icon and you cant see it anymore. I get
> around this by making the font
> smaller but it makes it hard to read then.
>
> An ideal way would be to do something like the clock does but I am unable
> to work out how it does[/color]

The clock is not an icon.

You may want to use an explorer bar instead:

Extending Explorer with Band Objects using .NET and Windows Forms
<URL:http://www.codeproject .com/csharp/dotnetbandobjec ts.asp>

Shell Extensions with .NET
<URL:http://mvps.org/emorcillo/en/code/shell/shellextensions .shtml>

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