wuala proper graceful shutdown methods - (with) traybar icon missing

sometimes wuala is missing its tray icon (win32). sometimes when auto-logon to windows xp (for example autologin with tools like powertoys/tweakui) is activated, the wuala trayicon cant be created/registered as the traybar (explorer.exe components or such) havent been started yet.

im not into win32 api details, but i think i remember that with at least winxp and later windows builds new methods and calls have been implemented into windows to recreated/redraw/register the tray icons and tray-related stuff in case explorer.exe / desktop crashes or restarts and things like that.

please make wuala work properly with the windows tray area or at least add a real quit/shutdown icon on the wuala logon window, as wuala can only be exited properly with rightclick on the traybaricon and "exit" there for example when wuala is logged out. when the traybar icon is missing, there is only the really unclean and hardcore killing way of the wuala.exe process left for quitting wuala, which isnt really nice i suppose.

also, wuala doesnt react properly to wm_quit message that i tried to send with process.exe tool from beyondlogic guys.

C:\>process -q wuala.exe

Command Line Process Viewer/Killer/Suspender for Windows NT/2000/XP V2.03
Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Craig Peacock beyondlogic org
Sending PID 832 'wuala.exe' WM_CLOSE Message. Timeout is 60 seconds.
wuala.exe (PID 832) failed to respond to WM_CLOSE. Terminating Now.
Sending PID 832 'wuala.exe' WM_CLOSE Message. Timeout is 60 seconds.
wuala.exe (PID 832) has been closed successfully.

so maybe you guys can add proper wm_close message handling of the wuala main app, or fix the traybar/trayicon handling or add a real shutdown/exit function also to the logon-window or the main wuala window too.

would be great thanks.

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Deathbob, Employee, replied on May 03, 2008 18:13

I don't know if this applies here, but there is a known problem in windows XP that if "Show UPNP Devices" is turned on in Network Neighborhood, some tray icons will be prevented from showing up (Race condition) during the boot process. The programs will think their icon is in the tray, but it really isn't.

Also, Wuala is written in JAVA and it is difficult/not recommended to handle Window Messages directly.

Also, the program you are using to send WM_CLOSE is a best effort attempt. The message has to be sent to a window but a process can have any number of windows. And not all of them may implement handling that message.

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nickname replied on July 02, 2008 15:03

i was looking more into this tray icon missing problem at windows in general and found this extensive thread:

http://winhlp.com/node/16

please look at the end of the discussion where this one guy debugs shell32.dll on winxp and analyzes the problem and also gives hints how programs can trigger/redraw their own icon again with windows api calls and such stuff.

would be really great if this could be fixed. i still experience this behaviour pretty frequently during windows startup when wuala is automatically being started (startup/autostart/autoruns folders/functions)

also a proper exit/shutdown function in the login window at the very beginning of wuala would be a step towards solving this problem.

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