Remove tray icon when killing program

[WojTec]

I TerminateProcess() another program.
Is possible to remove from tray this program icon (if any)?

[himitsu]

You can not, because when the program is terminated, it can do nothing more.

[jaenicke]

There are a few dirty solutions out in the internet, but no really good solution.

The following method works, but I would not recommend it:
Move the mouse cursor over the tray icons, let the mouse click on the button to expand the tray icons, move the mouse over all icons...
If you do this with your programm, all tray icons are clean then, but for the user it is not really a good solution I think.

[Luckie]

If you get shot in your head, will you be able to tell the police afterwards who shot you? Or if a process was able to do something after ist was killed, it could restart it self. Ergo the function TerminateProcess would be needles.

[CCRDude]

Injecting code that removes the tray icon would also work, at least as long as you're speaking about a fixed process (you need to find the right handle) and not in general.

[Furtbichler]

Zitat von jaenicke:

The following method works, but I would not recommend it:

Why wouldn't you recommend it. It's safe, easy to implement, harmless and robust. What else do you want from a good solution?

BTW: A 'Tray-icon-cleaner' as a separate process would solve the problem. It would run constantly (just another useless process) and cleans the icon area once a second. Don't know if it is possible though, but why not.

No need to use zombies ('shot in the head and go to the police'). This is a job for a 'witness' or a 'sentinel', right?

[himitsu]

TerminateProcess ist nicht der "normale" Weg, um eine Anwendung zu beenden.
Man könnte natürlich auch versuchen sein Programm so zuverlässig zu schreiben, daß ein derartiger Schritt nicht notwendig ist.

[WojTec]

Windows don't have any routine to refresh tray, like graphical objects has in Delphi? How it do it when program remove icon themself?

Ok, anyway, I have another idea, but don't know how to code it: send close command and whait let's say 2secs to execute, if not executed then kill it. 1: how to perform close command when only icon in try? 2: How to wait for execution n seconds?

[WojTec]

So, I found solution, but only partial - doesn't work on V+

madKernel.Process().TrayIcons[].Delete

Author seems to be not interested in fix