Hello,


Problem: I want to set the contextmenu for a tray icon of a form so that when you click a menu selection, such as "Click to see form", the form appears, when the selection "Click to minimize form" the form disappears and "Exit", the program closes. I have loaded the form so that it does not appear but the tray icon in seen below. Also, I have the exit part working but again can not effect the appear part and the disappear part ( see below ).




I am trying to create a contextmenu for a tray icon using your example on pages 420, 421 & 422 of Beginning VB.Net 2nd Edition. I want to be able to make the tray icon form appear when I right click the contextmenu of the tray icon and select "Click to normal size" and make the form disappear when I select "Click to minimize".


Public Class ExitMenuItem
    Inherits MenuItem

    ' Constructor...
    Public Sub New()
        Text = "Exit"
    End Sub

    ' OnClick...
    Protected Overrides Sub OnClick(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)


               ' Application.Exit()

      'I want to put some code here to make the form appear, such as
       ' me.visible = true

       ' but this code does not work
    End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)


        ' then, add an exit option...
        menu.MenuItems.Add(New ExitMenuItem())

        ' finally, tell the tray icon to use this menu...
        icnNotify.ContextMenu = menu


    End Sub

I would appreciate some help with this problem.

Thanks,

Bruce