[Xvid-devel] flashing icon in system tray during thumbnail extraction

[Michael Militzer]

Hi Chris,

thanks for your feedback. I didn't notice such extreme flashing / resize
behavior with the tray icon upon thumbnail creation. You are right however
that the icon serves no good purpose during thumbnail extraction.

So it would indeed be best to disable the tray icon for thumbnails
processing. But I haven't checked yet if/how thumbnail creation can be
easily distinguished from normal video playback from within the DShow
filter.

As a first and simple solution, we should definitely make the tray icon
a switchable GUI option. Will do this asap...

Best regards,
Michael


Quoting "Rev. Chris Korda" <victimofleisure at gmail.com>:

> During thumbnail extraction, for each thumbnail that's handled by XviD, the
> XviD icon is inserted into the system tray and then immediately removed
> again. This causes the system tray to rapidly alternate between two
> different sizes, which in turn causes all the taskbar items to bounce back
> and forth. It's scary if you're not expecting it, because it looks like
> something a malware would do. The XviD icon is hard to see clearly because
> it's flashing so fast, and it's usually not possible to click on it either.
>
> This problem was observed under XP SP2 using XviD 1.3.2, and occurs both for
> Explorer's thumbnails and app-specific thumbnail extractions. I was
> previously using 1.2.2 and it didn't exhibit this behavior.
>
> My suggestion FWIW is that 1) XviD should not display an icon in the system
> tray during thumbnail extraction, and 2) there should be a way to completely
> disable XviD's use of the system tray. Most applications that use the system
> tray also include a method for disabling that usage. The most obvious place
> for it would be a "Show icon in system tray" (or "Show icon in taskbar")
> checkbox in the XviD configuration dialog.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris Korda
>
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