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tigerbajs YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	processing app running in System Tray Sep 13th, 2006, 12:49pm   Hi! I want my processing application to be one of the start up items on my computer and run in the background and only be visible in the System Tray. Is it possible? Is it processing or the installation program that can determind that? I am thinking of using NSIS. Thanks in advance! Ellen

DDT YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: processing app running in System Tray Reply #1 - Sep 25th, 2006, 9:13pm   I'm not sure how much this helps, but I hope it's a start.  I think you would just include the libraries in use for this applet as a .jar file in Processing's libraries folder. System Tray Icon (AWT and SWING): http://jeans.studentenweb.org/java/trayicon/trayicon.html

ramin Junior Member Offline Posts: 80	Re: processing app running in System Tray Reply #2 - Oct 8th, 2008, 1:10am   There is an class SystemTray in th java.awt library of java se 6. but processing uses 5 doesn't it? why by the way?

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: processing app running in System Tray Reply #3 - Oct 8th, 2008, 3:37am   ramin wrote on Oct 8th, 2008, 1:10am: There is an class SystemTray in th java.awt library of java se 6. but processing uses 5 doesn't it why by the way http://processing.org/reference/environment/platforms.html#java

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: processing app running in System Tray Reply #4 - Oct 11th, 2008, 9:15am   Two remarks: - You can use Processing with Java 1.6 if you want. - On Windows (I suppose you mean this SystemTray), there are free utilities to minimize applications to system tray, it might be a simpler solution.