Question

I am working on task tray Icon in java, I like to open a popup Menu using left click same popup Menu as I open on right click, and please help me with a quick response.

Thanks in advance…

here is the code working for right click need to show same popup on left click…
don’t forget to place any image @ “src/img” folder with name “titleImg.jpg”

Just run this… it is a working example but i have to show same popup using left click

i have checked the Mouse Listener, it listen the left click on tray icon but how to show popup menu using that ???

    package com.abc.dao;

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.CheckboxMenuItem;
import java.awt.Menu;
import java.awt.MenuItem;
import java.awt.PopupMenu;
import java.awt.SystemTray;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.TrayIcon;

public class MyTaskTray {
    public static void main(String arg[]){

        //Check the SystemTray is supported
        if (!SystemTray.isSupported()) {
            System.out.println("SystemTray is not supported");
            return;
        }
        final PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu();
        final TrayIcon trayIcon =
                new TrayIcon(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(new java.io.File("").getAbsolutePath()+"/bin/img/titleImg.jpg"), "Library Drop");
        final SystemTray tray = SystemTray.getSystemTray();

        // Create a pop-up menu components
        MenuItem aboutItem = new MenuItem("About");
        CheckboxMenuItem cb1 = new CheckboxMenuItem("Set auto size");
        CheckboxMenuItem cb2 = new CheckboxMenuItem("Set tooltip");
        Menu displayMenu = new Menu("Display");
        MenuItem errorItem = new MenuItem("Error");
        MenuItem warningItem = new MenuItem("Warning");
        MenuItem infoItem = new MenuItem("Info");
        MenuItem noneItem = new MenuItem("None");
        MenuItem exitItem = new MenuItem("Exit");

        //Add components to pop-up menu
        popup.add(aboutItem);
        popup.addSeparator();
        popup.add(cb1);
        popup.add(cb2);
        popup.addSeparator();
        popup.add(displayMenu);
        displayMenu.add(errorItem);
        displayMenu.add(warningItem);
        displayMenu.add(infoItem);
        displayMenu.add(noneItem);
        popup.add(exitItem);

        trayIcon.setPopupMenu(popup);

        try {
            tray.add(trayIcon);
        } catch (AWTException e) {
            System.out.println("TrayIcon could not be added.");
        }

    }
}

Answer 1

What you actually lack is a parent component to show your PopupMenu. One way to achieve this, is to use an “invisible” frame (actually it is visible but with 0-bounds and undecorated, so you can’t see it) like this:

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.CheckboxMenuItem;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Menu;
import java.awt.MenuItem;
import java.awt.PopupMenu;
import java.awt.SystemTray;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.TrayIcon;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class MyTaskTray {
    public static void main(String arg[]) throws MalformedURLException {
        final Frame frame = new Frame("");
        frame.setUndecorated(true);
        // Check the SystemTray is supported
        if (!SystemTray.isSupported()) {
            System.out.println("SystemTray is not supported");
            return;
        }
        final TrayIcon trayIcon = new TrayIcon(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(
                new URL("http://home.comcast.net/~supportcd/Icons/Java_Required.jpg")), "Library Drop");
        final SystemTray tray = SystemTray.getSystemTray();

        // Create a pop-up menu components
        final PopupMenu popup = createPopupMenu();
        trayIcon.setPopupMenu(popup);
        trayIcon.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
                if (e.getButton() == MouseEvent.BUTTON1) {
                    frame.add(popup);
                    popup.show(frame, e.getXOnScreen(), e.getYOnScreen());
                }
            }
        });
        try {
            frame.setResizable(false);
            frame.setVisible(true);
            tray.add(trayIcon);
        } catch (AWTException e) {
            System.out.println("TrayIcon could not be added.");
        }

    }

    protected static PopupMenu createPopupMenu() {
        final PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu();
        MenuItem aboutItem = new MenuItem("About");
        CheckboxMenuItem cb1 = new CheckboxMenuItem("Set auto size");
        CheckboxMenuItem cb2 = new CheckboxMenuItem("Set tooltip");
        Menu displayMenu = new Menu("Display");
        MenuItem errorItem = new MenuItem("Error");
        MenuItem warningItem = new MenuItem("Warning");
        MenuItem infoItem = new MenuItem("Info");
        MenuItem noneItem = new MenuItem("None");
        MenuItem exitItem = new MenuItem("Exit");
        // Add components to pop-up menu
        popup.add(aboutItem);
        popup.addSeparator();
        popup.add(cb1);
        popup.add(cb2);
        popup.addSeparator();
        popup.add(displayMenu);
        displayMenu.add(errorItem);
        displayMenu.add(warningItem);
        displayMenu.add(infoItem);
        displayMenu.add(noneItem);
        popup.add(exitItem);
        return popup;
    }
}

As of Java 1.7, you can add the following line to remove the application bar from the taskbar:

frame.setType(Type.UTILITY);