Multiple NotifyIcons (one per Thread)?

[Joerg Battermann]

Hello everyone,

I am currently writing a little vb .net (2.0) based application which
utilizes a thread every now and then which works perfectly until I
started using one NotifyIcon for the Form to minimize the tool to the
systray etc: whenever the tool calls/starts a thread, an additional
NotifyIcon appears in the systray which disappears once the thread is
done... which means I have a couple of them when loading data from
multiple sources.

Why is this or what can I do to have only -one- NotifyIcon no matter how
many threads I use?


Best regards & thanks,
-Joerg

 

[Chris Dunaway]

Without seeing how and where you are creating your threads and
NotifyIcon objects, it is difficult to say.

Can you post just the code that starts the threads and the code that
creates the NotifyIcon objects?

Does your thread show a form?

 

[Joerg Battermann]

Chris,

the notifyicon is visible from the start and not started by a thread.
the event that starts a thread is by selecting an entry in a combobox
on the main form and looks like this:

Dim WithEvents RetrieveERSRequirements As RetrieveRequirements

RetrieveERSRequirements = New RetrieveRequirements()

RetrieveERSRequirements.Baseline = GlobalVars.baseline
RetrieveERSRequirements.Session = GlobalVars.session
RetrieveERSRequirements.TracesFrom = True
RetrieveERSRequirements.UDAs = True
RetrieveERSRequirements.RequirementTypeString =
"Engineering Requirement Specification"

'Prepare Thread
GlobalVars.ERSThread = New Threading.Thread(AddressOf
RetrieveERSRequirements.GetRequirements)


GlobalVars.ERSThread.TrySetApartmentState(Threading.ApartmentState.STA)

'Start Thread
GlobalVars.ERSThread.Start()




Best regards / MfG,
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Joerg Battermann
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