Contributor: SWAG SUPPORT TEAM unit notify; interface uses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, ExtCtrls, StdCtrls, shellApi; type TForm1 = class(TForm) Button1: TButton; Button2: TButton; Button3: TButton; Image1: TImage; Timer1: TTimer; Image2: TImage; procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject); procedure Button2Click(Sender: TObject); procedure Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject); procedure FormClose(Sender: TObject; var Action: TCloseAction); private { Private declarations } public { Public declarations } end; var Form1: TForm1; MyNotifyStruct: TNotifyIconData; { // Here is the structure info from ShellAPI.pas: type PNotifyIconDataA = ^TNotifyIconDataA; PNotifyIconDataW = ^TNotifyIconDataW; PNotifyIconData = PNotifyIconDataA; TNotifyIconDataA = record cbSize: DWORD; Wnd: HWND; uID: UINT; uFlags: UINT; uCallbackMessage: UINT; hIcon: HICON; szTip: array [0..63] of AnsiChar; end; TNotifyIconDataW = record cbSize: DWORD; Wnd: HWND; uID: UINT; uFlags: UINT; uCallbackMessage: UINT; hIcon: HICON; szTip: array [0..63] of WideChar; end; TNotifyIconData = TNotifyIconDataA; } implementation {$R *.DFM} procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin with MyNotifyStruct do begin cbSize:= sizeof(MyNotifyStruct); Wnd:= form1.handle; uID:= 1; uFlags:= NIF_ICON or NIF_TIP; hIcon:= Image1.picture.icon.handle; szTip:= 'Hello Lloyd'; end; Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, @MyNotifyStruct); end; procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject); begin Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_Delete, @MyNotifyStruct); end; procedure TForm1.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject); begin StrPCopy(MyNotifyStruct.szTip,TimetoStr(Time)); if (MyNotifyStruct.hIcon = image1.picture.icon.handle) then MyNotifyStruct.hIcon:= image2.picture.icon.handle else MyNotifyStruct.hIcon:= image1.picture.icon.handle; Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_Modify, @MyNotifyStruct); end; procedure TForm1.FormClose(Sender: TObject; var Action: TCloseAction); begin Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_Delete, @MyNotifyStruct); // clean up end; end. 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TabOrder = 2 end object Timer1: TTimer Interval = 500 OnTimer = Timer1Timer Left = 375 Top = 21 end end { DPR file } program taskbar; uses Forms, notify in 'notify.pas' {Form1}; {$R *.RES} begin Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1); Application.Run; end.