MegaMUD losing its system tray icon

[syntax53]

anyone every had explorer.exe crash on them (or something else) and then have the megamud icon in the system tray dissapear? any idea how to get it back?

[Platinum]

i never knew it could be there =/

[syntax53]

Originally posted by Platinum

i never knew it could be there =/



lol, i couldn't live without it. options --> settings --> display --> "use taskbar icon"

[Reckless]

that's a problem that happens a lot in 98, or that's the only one I've seen that happen in frequently. you are on 98 right? Restarting the program is about the only way I know. Sometimes it just eats the taskbar icons.

[syntax53]

Originally posted by Reckless

that's a problem that happens a lot in 98, or that's the only one I've seen that happen in frequently. you are on 98 right? Restarting the program is about the only way I know. Sometimes it just eats the taskbar icons.



nah, xp pro. anytime the explorer.exe crashes (or you end task it) and a new one is started some system tray icons get lost. even loading a new megamud doesn't make it pop up. if you minimize the newly loading megamud it dissapears as well. they only way i've found to get it back is to either reboot, or end-task all megamud.exe's.

[Panterra X]

yea this has been a problem forever... i tried many things but nothing ever got it back... just end task on it and start it up again

[axb9041]

I just start up a empty megemud, and then the icon comes back with all the other charactor(s) listed.

[syntax53]

Originally posted by axb9041

I just start up a empty megemud, and then the icon comes back with all the other charactor(s) listed.



wish i could do that, doesn't for me

[axb9041]

hmmmm..... I use win 2000 but that shouldn't make a difference at all.

[Locke Cole]

Originally posted by syntax53

anyone every had explorer.exe crash on them (or something else) and then have the megamud icon in the system tray dissapear? any idea how to get it back?

I can't really help with your problem, but I can at least explain how it could be solved if Merlin had open sourced MegaMud.



This is actually a problem with Windows--



http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;180498



But, software developers CAN work around this using a difficult to find solution--



http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0299/c/c0299.aspx



This article from MSDN is also useful--



http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_int/shell_int_programming/taskbar.asp



At least this'll be useful for anyone in here who finds themselves writing an app that works in the notification area.