I'm using C++ and Win32.
I want my context menu and settings dialog to show up near the tray icon. I think I need the icon's coordinates to do that.
Shell_NotifyIconGetRect wasn't available until Windows 7.
WM_CONTEXTMENU is available starting in Win2k, but only provides coordinates in wParam as of Vista (and when specifying NOTIFYICON_VERSION_4).
The correct way of solving this is to either use the mouse message coordinates, or GetMessagePos for other messages.
Retrieving the click coordinates with GetCursorPos works well:
// Inside WndProc's switch(message)...
case WM_APP_NOTIFYCALLBACK:
switch (LOWORD(lParam))
{
case WM_CONTEXTMENU: // XP and later
{
POINT pt = {};
if( GetCursorPos(&pt) )
ShowContextMenu(hWnd, pt, iStatus);
}
break;
// ...
}
// ...
To display the menu, all you need is the coords passed to you by WM_CONTEXTMENU or WM_RBUTTONUP (These are of course not normal messages, but something generated by the tray and you therefore don't have to deal with mouse vs keyboard)
Shell_NotifyIconGetRect is used if you want to display a toast (custom window) near the tray. On < 7 you can emulate it with findwindow by looking for the TrayNotifyWnd class with Shell_TrayWnd as the parent