ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Taskbar icons in AIR
System tray icon menus
Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
You can add a menu to the system tray icon by creating a NativeMenu object and assigning it to the
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.menu property (no default menu is provided by the operating
system). Access the system tray icon menu by right-clicking the icon.
System tray icon tooltips
Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
Add a tooltip to an icon by setting the tooltip property:
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.tooltip = "Application name";
System tray icon events
Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
The SystemTrayIcon object referenced by the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon property dispatches a
ScreenMouseEvent for click, mouseDown, mouseUp, rightClick, rightMouseDown, and rightMouseUp events. You
can use these events, along with an icon menu, to allow users to interact with your application when it has no visible
windows.
Example: Creating an application with no windows
Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
The following example creates an AIR application which has a system tray icon, but no visible windows. (The visible
property of the application must not be set to true in the application descriptor, or the window will be visible when
the application starts up.)
package
{
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.NativeMenu;
import flash.display.NativeMenuItem;
import flash.display.NativeWindow;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.desktop.DockIcon;
import flash.desktop.SystemTrayIcon;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;
public class SysTrayApp extends Sprite
{
public function SysTrayApp():void{
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.autoExit = false;
var icon:Loader = new Loader();
var iconMenu:NativeMenu = new NativeMenu();
var exitCommand:NativeMenuItem = iconMenu.addItem(new NativeMenuItem("Exit"));
exitCommand.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, function(event:Event):void {
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