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Cross-platform SystemTray support for Swing/AWT, GtkStatusIcon, and AppIndicator on Java 6+
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SystemTray
Cross-platform SystemTray and AppIndicator support for java applications.
This small library only purpose is to show reasonably decent system-tray icons/app-indicators with a simple popup-menu.
There are a number of problems on Linux with the Swing (and SWT) system-tray icons, namely that
- Swing system-tray icons on linux do not support transparent backgrounds (they have a white background)
- Swing/SWT do not support app-indicators, which are necessary on more recent versions of linux (ie: ubuntu)
- Swing popup menus look like crap
- system-tray icons use a JMenuPopup, which looks nicer than the java 'regular' one.
- app-indicators use native popups.
This is for cross-platform use, specifically - linux 32/64, mac 32/64, and windows 32/64. Java 6+ This library uses JNA, which means there are fun bits that are native.
Note: This library does NOT uses SWT for system-tray support, only for the purpose
of lessening the jar dependencies. SWT-based wouldn't be difficult, just remember
that SWT on linux *already* starts up the GTK main event loop.
This library might need some additional testing in SWT environments.
Note: If you use the attached JNA libraries, you **MUST** load the respective
native libraries yourself, especially with JNA (as the loading logic has
been removed from the jar)
Note: This project was heavily influence by the excellent Lantern project,
*Many* thanks to them for figuring out AppIndicators via JNA.
https://github.com/getlantern/lantern
* Lantern - Apache 2.0 License
https://github.com/getlantern/lantern
Copyright 2010 Brave New Software Project, Inc.
* JNA - Apache 2.0 License
https://github.com/twall/jna
Copyright (c) 2011 Timothy Wall