在Adobe Air中更改任务栏中图标的背景颜色

Question

Is it possible to change the background color of the icon in taskbar on windows? I'm going to build a simple chat application using adobe air with html/javascript and want to use this feature as a notification for new incoming messages, like in facebook messenger app, for example (see image).

Answer 1

You can do several thing to notify the user via the NativeApplication , SystemTrayIcon and DockIcon classes.

On windows you can flash the application icon on the task bar and in OSX you can make the icon bounce to notify the user of a change / action required.

A summary of the methods used can be found on Adobe's site under Working with the dock and the system tray

Although these examples are in as3, they are relatively similar to the js classes which can be found in the AIR HTML API Reference

NativeApplication

SystemTrayIcon

DockIcon