Greg:
I am going to re-post some code George Hester
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[email protected]> posted on this newsgroup
recently, along with the suggestion to please read back a
few pages of messages, or Search the messages, before
posting a question that may already have been answered.
-Andrew
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It's not mine:
Option Explicit
Public Const WUM_RESETNOTIFICATION As Long = &H407
Public Const NIM_ADD As Long = &H0
Public Const NIM_MODIFY As Long = &H1
Public Const NIM_DELETE As Long = &H2
Public Const NIF_ICON As Long =
&H2 'adding an icon
Public Const NIF_TIP As Long =
&H4 'adding a tip
Public Const NIF_MESSAGE As Long = &H1 'want
return messages
'Structure needed for Shell_Notify API
Public Type NOTIFYICONDATA
cbSize As Long
hwnd As Long
uID As Long
uFlags As Long
uCallbackMessage As Long
hIcon As Long
szTip As String * 64
End Type
Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal wMsg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Integer, _
ByVal lParam As Any) As Long
Public Declare Function GetClassName Lib "user32" _
Alias "GetClassNameA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal nMaxCount As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" _
Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" _
Alias "GetWindowTextA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lpString As String, _
ByVal cch As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32" _
(ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, _
ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib "shell32.dll"
_
Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" _
(ByVal dwMessage As Long, _
lpData As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Long
Public Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" _
Alias "FindWindowA" _
(ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Public Function EnumWindowProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lParam As Long) As
Long
'do stuff here with hwnd
Dim sClass As String
Dim sIDType As String
Dim sTitle As String
Dim hResult As Long
sTitle = GetWindowIdentification(hwnd, sIDType, sClass)
If sTitle = "rctrl_renwnd32" Then
hResult = KillNewMailIcon(hwnd)
End If
If hResult Then
EnumWindowProc = False
'Reset the new mail notification engine
Call SendMessage(hwnd, WUM_RESETNOTIFICATION, 0&,
0&)
Else
EnumWindowProc = True
End If
End Function
Public Function GetWindowIdentification(ByVal hwnd As
Long, _
sIDType As String,
_
sClass As String)
As String
Dim nSize As Long
Dim sTitle As String
'Get the size of the string required
'to hold the window title
nSize = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
'If the return is 0, there is no title
If nSize > 0 Then
sTitle = Space$(nSize + 1)
Call GetWindowText(hwnd, sTitle, nSize + 1)
sIDType = "title"
sClass = Space$(64)
Call GetClassName(hwnd, sClass, 64)
Else
'No title, so get the class name instead
sTitle = Space$(64)
Call GetClassName(hwnd, sTitle, 64)
sClass = sTitle
sIDType = "class"
End If
GetWindowIdentification = TrimNullMain(sTitle)
End Function
Public Function KillNewMailIcon(ByVal hwnd As Long) As
Boolean
Dim pShell_Notify As NOTIFYICONDATA
Dim hResult As Long
'Set up the Shell_Notify structure
pShell_Notify.cbSize = Len(pShell_Notify)
pShell_Notify.hwnd = hwnd
pShell_Notify.uID = 0
'Remove it from the system tray and catch result
hResult = Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_DELETE, pShell_Notify)
If (hResult) Then
KillNewMailIcon = True
Else
KillNewMailIcon = False
End If
End Function
Public Function TrimNullMain(strItem As String) As String
Dim pos As Integer
pos = InStr(strItem, Chr$(0))
If pos Then
TrimNullMain = Left$(strItem, pos - 1)
Else: TrimNullMain = strItem
End If
End Function
Public Sub RemoveNewMailIcon()
EnumWindows AddressOf EnumWindowProc, 0
End Sub
Put this in a module. I put a shortcut to it in my menu.
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;292797