System tray icon in VB6

[swas]

Hi,
I want to have a system tray icon for a small app, as well as have the option to auto load app on system startup. Something similar to the SQL Server Manager.

I am reasonably comfortable with Access but not VB6, which I believe would be the better platform for a small background app. I also have VS 2003 but not really used.

Help appreciated.


swas

[Dököll]

Hi,
I want to have a system tray icon for a small app, as well as have the option to auto load app on system startup. Something similar to the SQL Server Manager.

I am reasonably comfortable with Access but not VB6, which I believe would be the better platform for a small background app. I also have VS 2003 but not really used.

Help appreciated.


swas

I believe if you add your VB app to your start up group folder, once your machine boots the application fires (C:\Documents and Settings\Your Folder\ so on and so forth. I will find one of the post I have here to see if I am entirely correct, provided members here did not give you the proper feeback by then. I think there is another way of achieving this

Good move, by the way, going with VB 6 rather than Access for small GUI, Access should only be used as a back-end, love it to death, but it can get clumsy used as GUI:-)

In a bit!

[swas]

I believe if you add your VB app to your start up group folder, once your machine boots the application fires (C:\Documents and Settings\Your Folder\ so on and so forth. I will find one of the post I have here to see if I am entirely correct, provided members here did not give you the proper feeback by then. I think there is another way of achieving this

Good move, by the way, going with VB 6 rather than Access for small GUI, Access should only be used as a back-end, love it to death, but it can get clumsy used as GUI:-)

In a bit!

Thanks for the note.

I am wanting to do the load with OS programatically (Which I suppose I can insert into the startup folder). But I didn't also mention ideally the app would always run in the background, regardless of user.

Thanks again.


swas