minimize to tray [feature request]

dheijl / swyh-rs

Stream What You Hear written in rust, inspired by SWYH.

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minimize to tray [feature request] #28

Open lukasMega opened 3 years ago

lukasMega commented 3 years ago

Hello, thanks for great application! It would be great to have the possibility to minimize to tray sometimes in the future! Thanks

dheijl commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Unfortunately the cross-platform GUI toolkit I use, fltk, does not support the notion of a system tray icon. However, you could use this workaround as described in the wiki here

MoAlyousef commented 3 years ago

I have added a toy project to the fltk-rs-demos repo which uses certain features of the native-windows-gui crate to do that. There are 2 problems:

Conditional compilation.
win32 tray apps require that they be the main application (handling the main thread). Which further complicates the conditional compilation part.

dheijl commented 3 years ago

Thanks, very nicely done! But I'm really looking for a cross-platform solution, and after looking at https://github.com/qdot/systray-rs I decided to leave it for the time being.

MoAlyousef commented 3 years ago

Sure. I'll also check out systray-rs