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Notifyicon using VB.Net 2010 Express

Hi,
I have a program that utilizes the notifyicon and implements classes with embeded (not sure if this is the correct terminology) background workers.

My question is, whenever the backgroundworker is invoked, the program creates another notifyicon in the taskbar. And this keeps on happening whenever the worker is invoked. Initially, when I hover over the icons, they seem to have the sameproperties as intended and "hold fort", however, after sometime (possibly 20 seconds or more), if I hover over them,they disappear.

Has anyone come accross this and / or how can I stop this behaviour?

nepaluz

ASKER

I should add that I am looking for a solution to STOP my program spawning these other notifyicons.

Mike Tomlinson

That isn't "normal" behavior. What do your BackgroundWorkers do? Show us any code that is accessing the NotifyIcons please...surely you must be making them appear somehow. =\

nepaluz

ASKER

Strange as it may seem, there is NO code at all that fires the notifyicon. I have added it through the designer, and apart from handling its click event, no other code accesses / fires the notifyicon (so far!). I intend to implement a balloon tip in the future, however, as it stands, not yet.

The code for handling the clickevent is:

Private Sub NotifyIcon1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.Click
    Me.Show()
End Sub

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nepaluz

ASKER

see image example
iconspawn.gif

Mike Tomlinson

Are you sure these icons are not from previous instances that didn't shut down properly?

So when you first run the app, there is only one icon? ...and you are getting more icons while the app is still running?

Are you creating other instances of the main form via code?

nepaluz

ASKER

1. I am sure that the icons are NOT from previous instances.
2. Before I run the app, there are not icons. I can literally see the icons being "born" when the backgroundworker is fired.
3. There are NO instances of the form being created via code.

I have to say that the backgroundworker does update the form via the progress changed where it MAY change a few images on the main form (but NEVER addresses the notifyicon).

Mike Tomlinson

Ok...we've eliminated the obvious culprits then.

Nothing left to do but examine your code. Can we see a what happens in your ProgressChanged() event?

Are you doing any manual invoking directly from the background threads?

nepaluz

ASKER

Here is a typical one. I actually have around 3 other BGWs, but essentially they update the main form in the same vein.

Private Sub CheckWorker_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles CheckWorker.ProgressChanged
    Dim xState As CheckIfNationwide.CheckNWState = DirectCast(e.UserState, CheckIfNationwide.CheckNWState)
    Select Case xState.iResult
        Case "OK"
           For x = 0 To Me.DataGridView1.RowCount - 1
                If Me.DataGridView1.Item(1, x).Value = xState.aResult(0).ToString.Split("\").Last Then
                    Dim iCell = DirectCast(Me.DataGridView1.Item(0, x), DataGridViewImageCell)
                    iCell.Value = My.Resources.NOFXConverter16
                    Me.DataGridView1.Item(3, x).Value = "Updating. Please wait ..."
                End If
                Next
        Case "ER"
            For x = 0 To Me.DataGridView1.RowCount - 1
                If Me.DataGridView1.Item(1, x).Value = xState.aResult(0).ToString.Split("\").Last Then
                    Dim iCell = DirectCast(Me.DataGridView1.Item(0, x), DataGridViewImageCell)
                    iCell.Value = My.Resources.NOFXConverter16X
                    Me.DataGridView1.Item(3, x).Value = "Not a Natiowide file."
                End If
            Next
        End Select

    End Sub

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nepaluz

ASKER

To add to that, I do have one instance (in one of the BGWs) where I call (invoke??) another class.

Mike Tomlinson

Nothing throws up red flags in my mind there...

What are you manually invoking?

What is the startup object for your application?

nepaluz

ASKER

The class I invoke / call from the BGW writes a file to disk. Basically, thats all it does. I do pass to it, though, a list of string which I initialize from within the class with the "embeded" BGW (if that makes any sense). Apart from that, I can not see anything else.

nepaluz

ASKER

I lie, its a list of objects which includes strings and a datatable, all initialized from within the class with the "embeded" BGW.

Mike Tomlinson

Like you, I still can't see where the root of the problem lies.

What is the startup object for the app? I assume it's a form? Is it the same form that has the BackgroundWorkers?

Really trying to get the big picture for the flow of your app.

nepaluz

ASKER

Yep, its a windows form and I have added all the BGWs through the designer.

Mike Tomlinson

Can you post all the code?

...or zip it up and change the extension to .txt so you can upload it here.

nepaluz

ASKER

Hmm! not sure I want to post the entire project here.

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