Option Explicit

Public Const WUM_RESETNOTIFICATION As Long = &H407


'Required Public constants, types & declares
'for the Shell_Notify API method

Public Const NIM_ADD As Long = &H0
Public Const NIM_MODIFY As Long = &H1
Public Const NIM_DELETE As Long = &H2
  

Public Const NIF_ICON As Long = &H2 'adding an ICON
Public Const NIF_TIP As Long = &H4 'adding a TIP
Public Const NIF_MESSAGE As Long = &H1 'want return messages
  

' Structure needed for Shell_Notify API

Type NOTIFYICONDATA
  cbSize As Long
  hwnd As Long
  uID As Long
  uFlags As Long
  uCallbackMessage As Long
  hIcon As Long
  szTip As String * 64
End Type

Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" _
  (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, _
  ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As Any) As Long

Declare Function GetClassName Lib "user32" _
  Alias "GetClassNameA" _
  (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
  ByVal lpClassName As String, _
  ByVal nMaxCount As Long) As Long

Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" _
  Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" _
  (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" _
  Alias "GetWindowTextA" _
  (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
  ByVal lpString As String, _
  ByVal cch As Long) As Long
 
Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32" _
  (ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, _
  ByVal lParam As Long) As Long

Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib "shell32.dll" _
  Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" _
  (ByVal dwMessage As Long, _
  lpData As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Long
 
Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" _
  (ByVal lpClassName As String, _
  ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

' This is the entry point that makes it happen
Sub RemoveNewMailIcon()
  EnumWindows AddressOf EnumWindowProc, 0
End Sub

Public Function EnumWindowProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
  ByVal lParam As Long) As Long


  'Do stuff here with hwnd

  Dim sClass As String
  Dim sIDType As String
  Dim sTitle As String
  Dim hResult As Long

  sTitle = GetWindowIdentification(hwnd, sIDType, sClass)
  If sTitle = "rctrl_renwnd32" Then
    hResult = KillNewMailIcon(hwnd)
  End If

  If hResult Then
    EnumWindowProc = False
    
    ' Reset the new mail notification engine
    Call SendMessage(hwnd, WUM_RESETNOTIFICATION, 0&, 0&)
  Else
    EnumWindowProc = True
  End If
End Function

Private Function GetWindowIdentification(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
  sIDType As String, _
  sClass As String) As String

  Dim nSize As Long
  Dim sTitle As String

  'get the size of the string required
  'to hold the window title
  nSize = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)

  'if the return is 0, there is no title
  If nSize > 0 Then
    sTitle = Space$(nSize + 1)
    Call GetWindowText(hwnd, sTitle, nSize + 1)
    sIDType = "title"
    sClass = Space$(64)
    Call GetClassName(hwnd, sClass, 64)

  Else

    'no title, so get the class name instead

    sTitle = Space$(64)
    Call GetClassName(hwnd, sTitle, 64)
    sClass = sTitle
    sIDType = "class"
  End If
  
  GetWindowIdentification = TrimNull(sTitle)
End Function

Private Function TrimNull(startstr As String) As String
  Dim pos As Integer
  pos = InStr(startstr, Chr$(0))
  If pos Then
    TrimNull = Left(startstr, pos - 1)
    Exit Function
  End If

  'if this far, there was
  'no Chr$(0), so return the string
  TrimNull = startstr
End Function

Private Function KillNewMailIcon(ByVal hwnd As Long) As Boolean
  Dim pShell_Notify As NOTIFYICONDATA
  Dim hResult As Long

  'setup the Shell_Notify structure
  pShell_Notify.cbSize = Len(pShell_Notify)
  pShell_Notify.hwnd = hwnd
  pShell_Notify.uID = 0

 

  ' Remove it from the system tray and catch result
  hResult = Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_DELETE, pShell_Notify)

  If (hResult) Then
    KillNewMailIcon = True
  Else
    KillNewMailIcon = False
  End If
End Function