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Notifyicon to open a link after clicking on the icon


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By john_zakaria - 1/24/2011

hi everyone.. i made my windows service in C# and everything is running well except only one task..



i made a notifyicon1 in the taskbar so that the user can click on this notifycon1 and opens a links that it is retrieved from



database.



for example i am trying to open the link of google when the user clicks on the notifyicon1.



My problem is that the action of double click for the notify icon is not working neither for mouse move or double click action



my code is:

this.notifyIcon1.MouseMove += new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(this.john_move);

this.notifyIcon1.DoubleClick += new System.EventHandler(this.notifyIcon1_DoubleClick);



Note: i made 2 function one for the event double click and the other for mouse move coz i made first double click function



but it did not works for me.



private void notifyIcon1_DoubleClick(object Sender, EventArgs e)

{

try

{

File.WriteAllText(@"c:\\windows_service_files\\STErrors.txt", "notifyIcon1_DoubleClick " +



DateTime.Now.ToString());



//System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://www.google.com");



}

catch (Exception ex)

{

File.WriteAllText(@"c:\\windows_service_files\\STErrors.txt", "catch 1 "+DateTime.Now.ToString() +



ex.ToString());

}

}



private void john_move(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)

{

try

{

File.WriteAllText(@"c:\\windows_service_files\\STErrors.txt", "John move " + DateTime.Now.ToString());



System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://www.google.com");



}

catch (Exception ex)

{

File.WriteAllText(@"c:\\windows_service_files\\STErrors.txt", "catch 2 " + DateTime.Now.ToString() +



ex.ToString());

}

}





Please reply as soon as possible..



thanks and best regards for everyone
By john_zakaria - 1/26/2011

TallOne (1/26/2011)
What is the error you are getting? Try changing the method scope from private to protected.




my problem is that neither the double click action nor the mouse move is functioning



also i have another problem.



i made the checkbox "allow the service to interact with desktop" checked using code. but it did not show the notify icon on desktop automatically after installing. i must go to services and check it again to run corrrectly