> I want to write a small program that will display a status icon in the 
> system tray and pop up small messages in the corner of the screen. [It 
> is critical that these do *not* take the input focus. Can you imagine 
> how *annoying* that would be?]
> 
> Any suggestions as to how to pull this off? Personally I don't know of a 
> programming language that makes it easy to do this kind of thing.
> 
> [Obviously everything is possible in C, if you can figure out your way 
> around the low-level Win32 API... But that doesn't sound like my idea of 
> a good time.]

Check out the "Shell_NotifyIcon" function from shell32.dll.

Details on the msdn here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa922175.aspx

And I'm sure lots of other results from google.

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