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Hello all,

I've written a program with a systray icon, and whenever I click the systray icon the program currently having focus looses it. Is there a way to stop this behaviour ?

If not, is there a way to release the focus (back to the previous program) ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

P.s.
It looks like comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 is rather dead. Does
anybody know if there is another newsgroup for API programmers ?

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On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 09:16:16 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:

Hello all,

I've written a program with a systray icon, and whenever I click the systray icon the program currently having focus looses it. Is there a way to stop this behaviour ?

Try not letting the system handle WM_ACTIVATEAPP message if it's
deactivating the current application window. If that doesn't work, I don't think there is any which doesn't produce unwanted effect.

If not, is there a way to release the focus (back to the previous program) ?

Get next/previous visible top-level non-message-only window, then focus back
to it.

P.s.
It looks like comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 is rather dead. Does anybody know if there is another newsgroup for API programmers ?

Autohotkey subreddit.

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JJ,

I've written a program with a systray icon, and whenever I click
the systray icon the program currently having focus looses it.
Is there a way to stop this behaviour ?

Try not letting the system handle WM_ACTIVATEAPP message if it's
deactivating the current application window.

? Are you suggesting I should try to intercept messages *outside* of my program with its system-tray icon ?

Also, I would still like to be able to give focus to my program by clicking
on its (dialog)window.

Further "googeling" for a solution I found a reference to WS_EX_NOACTIVATE. I've yet to test it.

Get next/previous visible top-level non-message-only window,
then focus back to it.

I was hoping that there would be a method to un-focus my program, which
would cause the OS to give focus back to the previous program. Much like
what happens when you close a program.

It looks like comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 is rather dead.
Does anybody know if there is another newsgroup for API programmers ?

Autohotkey subreddit.

Thanks. I did not consider it as I'm writing Assembly, but with absense of anything closer ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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On 2025-07-06 10:04, R.Wieser wrote:

JJ,

I've written a program with a systray icon, and whenever I click
the systray icon the program currently having focus looses it.
Is there a way to stop this behaviour ?

Try not letting the system handle WM_ACTIVATEAPP message if it's
deactivating the current application window.

? Are you suggesting I should try to intercept messages *outside* of my program with its system-tray icon ?

I believe this meant not passing that message from your assembler window function to the DefWindowProc API.

Another approach would be to have a different thread own the handles and message queue for your tray icon, thus preventing implicit tray icon
logic from activating your real main window .

Enjoy

Jakob

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Jakob,

Try not letting the system handle WM_ACTIVATEAPP message if it's
deactivating the current application window.

? Are you suggesting I should try to intercept messages *outside* of my
program with its system-tray icon ?

I believe this meant not passing that message from your assembler window function to the DefWindowProc API.

That was how I first took it. But as far as I know that means that the app won't respond to any kind of mouse-prodding anymore, not even to (trying to) click its "close" button. :-(

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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