Windows 7 Taskbar Progress Bar in Java

Question

I'd like to know if it is possible to make a progress bar displayed on the taskbar like Windows Explorer does when there's a file operation going on?

I saw many examples, but they all involved C#.

SWT won't cut it.

Answer 1

I found out that this feature is included in Java 9. It is part of AWT and it is quity simple too use.

Here is short example:

import java.awt.Taskbar;
import java.awt.Taskbar.State;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;

/**
 * @author fxl
 */
public class TaskbarSample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // JavaDoc:
        // https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/awt/Taskbar.html

        // MSDNDoc:
        // https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391692(VS.85).aspx
        if (Taskbar.isTaskbarSupported() == false) {
            return;
        }

        JFrame dialog = new JFrame("Test - 50%");
        dialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        dialog.setVisible(true);    


        Taskbar taskbar = Taskbar.getTaskbar();
        taskbar.setWindowProgressState(dialog, State.ERROR);
        taskbar.setWindowProgressValue(dialog, 50);     
    }

}