5.3. Tray Icon and Taskbar Button
7 Sticky Notes offers two default Windows interaction options: a tray icon and/or a taskbar button. Both of them lets you to show/hide your notes and access 7 Sticky Notes program menu, as showed previously at the 7 Sticky Notes' Menu topic, and, also, both the tray icon and the taskbar button are optional features of 7 Sticky Notes, which means that you can enable or disable them at the System section of 7 Sticky Notes options if you want.

Tray Icon:
Located at the notification area of the taskbar (the clock area), the Tray Icon is by default showed when you first install 7 Sticky Notes, and it offers two interaction methods:

    • Right click: Shows 7 Sticky Notes program menu

    • Left click: Switch notes shown/hidden. As an example, if the notes are hidden, one click at the tray icon shows the notes, and another click hides the notes again.

    • Middle click: Show all notes. If they are not showed, they will be visible, if they are showed, they will be brought in front of all other Windows.


Taskbar Button:
The Taskbar Button of 7 Sticky Notes was created to allow Windows' 7 Pin to Taskbar option, as is going to be described in the next topic Pin to Taskbar, but it also allows other interactions and can be used in any other version of Windows. This option is not enabled by default when 7 Sticky Notes is installed, so you must enable it manually at the System section of 7 Sticky Notes' options. Each one of the actions that can be performed from the taskbar button are decribed below:

    • Right click: Shows 7 Sticky Notes program menu. The pictures below shows how the program menu is accessed through the taskbar button on Windows XP and on Windows 7:

Windows 7 Taskbar Button Menu
Windows XP Taskbar Button Menu
    • Left click: This action will only work in Windows 7, since it uses the "close" button located at the side of the "7 Sticky Notes!" label:


"Hover Preview" Windows 7 Menu
Takbar Right Click Windows 7 Menu

This function works by clicking on the "close" button ("x" button) of Windows 7 taskbar button, and its behavior will depend whether the option "Use Windows' "close" button to switch hide/show all notes notes" at the System section of 7 Sticky Notes' options is enabled or not:

Enabled: Clicking the close button will switch notes shown/hidden. As an example, if the notes are hidden, one click at the close button shows them, and another click hide the notes again.
Disabled: Clicking the close button will close 7 Sticky Notes, exactly like if you clicked the "Quit" item from the program menu.

As commented above, if you are using Windows 7, you can "pin" 7 Sticky Notes to the taskbar, and use the taskbar button instead of the tray icon. To see how to pin 7 Sticky Notes, please see the next topic Pin to Taskbar.