SHNotificationAdd

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11/18/2015

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4/8/2010

This function asynchronously adds a notification to the notification tray.

Note

On Windows Mobile Standard SHNotificationAdd is not available.

Syntax

LRESULT SHNotificationAdd(
  SHNOTIFICATIONDATA* pndAdd
);

Parameters

pndAdd
[in] Pointer to an SHNOTIFICATIONDATA structure describing the notification to be added.

Return Value

This function returns ERROR_SUCCESS when successful.

The following list shows the return values on failure, for Windows Mobile Professional and Windows Mobile Classic

ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER
ERROR_OUTOFMEMORY
ERROR_DLL_INIT_FAILED
ERROR_NOT_FOUND
ERROR_NO_MATCH

The following list shows the return values on failure, for Windows Mobile Standard.

ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER

For a description of these error values, see System Errors - Alphabetical Order.

Example

The following code example demonstrates how to use SHNotificationAdd.

Note

To make the following code example easier to read, security checking and error handling are not included. This code example should not be used in a release configuration unless it has been modified to include them.

static const GUID CLSID_SHNAPI_Test = { 0x33765136, 0x8cb9, 0x449a, { 0xb0, 0x20, 0x43, 0xed, 0x40, 0xa, 0xb8, 0xfc } };
void SHNotificationExample()
{
    // This code will add an SHNotification notificaion 
    SHNOTIFICATIONDATA sn  = {0};
    SHNOTIFICATIONDATA sn2 = {0};
    sn.cbStruct = sizeof(sn);
    sn.dwID = 1;
    sn.npPriority = SHNP_INFORM;
    sn.csDuration = 15;
    sn.hicon = LoadIcon(g_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_SAMPLEICON));
    sn.clsid = CLSID_SHNAPI_Test;
    sn.grfFlags = 0;
    sn.pszTitle = TEXT("Sample Notification");
    sn.pszHTML = TEXT("<html><body>This is <b>sample html</b> in a notification!</body></html>");
    sn.rgskn[0].pszTitle = TEXT("Dismiss");
    sn.rgskn[0].skc.wpCmd = 100;
    //Add the notification to the tray

    //Put the data from an existing notification into a second SHNOTIFICATIONDATA struct
    sn2.cbStruct = sizeof(sn2);
    SHNotificationGetData(&CLSID_SHNAPI_Test, 1, &sn2);
    //Update the title, HTML, icon, and softkeys of the notification
    sn2.pszTitle = TEXT("Updated - Sample Notification");
    sn2.pszHTML = TEXT("<html><body>This notification has been <b>updated!</b></body></html>");
    sn2.hicon = LoadIcon(g_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_SAMPLEICON2));
    sn2.rgskn[0].pszTitle = TEXT("Disabled");
    sn2.rgskn[0].skc.wpCmd = 100;
    sn2.rgskn[0].skc.grfFlags = NOTIF_SOFTKEY_FLAGS_DISABLED;
    SHNotificationUpdate(SHNUM_TITLE | SHNUM_HTML | SHNUM_ICON | SHNUM_SOFTKEYCMDS | SHNUM_SOFTKEYS, &sn2);
    //Remove the notification from the tray
    SHNotificationRemove(&CLSID_SHNAPI_Test, 1);
    //Add a new notification that utilizes the MRE functionality
    sn.cbStruct = sizeof(sn);
    sn.dwID = 1;
    sn.npPriority = SHNP_INFORM;
    sn.csDuration = 15;
    sn.hicon = LoadIcon(g_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_SAMPLEICON));
    sn.clsid = CLSID_SHNAPI_Test;
    sn.grfFlags = SHNF_STRAIGHTTOTRAY;
    sn.pszTodaySK = TEXT("New Task");
    sn.pszTodayExec = TEXT("\\windows\\tasks.exe");
    //Add the notification to the tray
    SHNotificationAdd(&sn);
    //Remove the notification from the tray
    SHNotificationRemove(&CLSID_SHNAPI_Test, 1);
}

Remarks

The notification tray is the area within the taskbar reserved by shells to display status notification icons. Call this function to add a notification to the tray. Notification processing is done asynchronously; that is, this function will return after adding the notification to the tray, and processing will happen on a different thread.

Requirements

Header	aygshell.h
Library	aygshell.lib
Windows Embedded CE	Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and later
Windows Mobile	Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

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