System Tray notification icon erratically appearin...

Sometimes, but not consistently, when I boot my Windows 7 Pro desktop, Skype (v7.1.0.105) appears in my system tray as a tiny green icon with a yellow checkmark. When someone IMs me, it shows a notification on that icon, and I can click on it to respond. Other times, also at boot, while it does show up in Task Manager, there is nothing in the system tray, and I have no way to ping someone else unless I click on the main Skype icon on the desktop to bring up the interface, where it takes up space on my taskbar. X'ing out closes it, although I know it's running because I can see it in the Task Manager but if someone want to ping me, I'm not sure if they can even see me unless I click on the desktop icon to load it. When I do that, it stays in my task bar, but I still can't see it in the system tray, despite having it set to show icon and notifications. Looking at that now, the config states I'm not signed in, but I am!
1) Why do I see that system tray icon sporadically? I'd prefer it be there all the time.
2) Even when it does show up, it is VERY easy to overlook, because it's so tiny that I frequently overlook it until hours later. Is there any way to make it do a pop-up instead?
What am I doing wrong? I only use Skype for simple IM.
TIA
Elaine
Ivy, VA

armalcolm wrote:
BalusC wrote:
So, you want to generate platform specific behaviour? Java is supposed to be platform independent. Either use JNI to access platform specific libraries, or use another language which has natively access to platform specific libraries. In case of Windows that is at least C++.Hardly platform specific. Windows, Linux and Mac have a system tray and notifications of some sort.You're right about the platform support, but behind the scenes it is still platform specific.
Which is presumably why Java now supports this functionality.The topistarter is using JDK 1.4.2. We can of course advise him to upgrade to JDK 6.0.
Topicstarter: check this article: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/systemtray/

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