1st approach to make a tray-app out of it

Author: int2001

main.js

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-const {app, BrowserWindow, globalShortcut } = require('electron/main');
+const {app, BrowserWindow, Tray, Menu, globalShortcut } = require('electron/main');
 const path = require('node:path');
 const {ipcMain} = require('electron')
 const http = require('http');
 const xml = require("xml2js");
 const net = require('net');
 
+let tray;
 let s_mainWindow;
 let msgbacklog=[];
 var WServer;
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ function createWindow () {
 		}
 	});
 	if (app.isPackaged) {
-	 	mainWindow.setMenu(null);
+		mainWindow.setMenu(null);
 	}
 
 
@@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ ipcMain.on("setCAT", async (event,arg) => {
 });
 
 ipcMain.on("quit", async (event,arg) => {
+	app.isQuitting = true;
 	app.quit();
 	event.returnValue=true;
 });
@@ -157,6 +159,12 @@ ipcMain.on("test", async (event,arg) => {
 	}
 });
 
+app.on('before-quit', () => {
+	if (tray) {
+		tray.destroy();
+	}
+});
+
 app.whenReady().then(() => {
 	s_mainWindow=createWindow();
 	createAdvancedWindow(s_mainWindow);
@@ -169,10 +177,40 @@ app.whenReady().then(() => {
 			s_mainWindow.webContents.send('updateMsg',msgbacklog.pop());
 		}
 	});
+
+	// Create the tray icon
+  	tray = new Tray('icon1616.png');
+
+	const contextMenu = Menu.buildFromTemplate([
+		{ label: 'Show App', click: () => s_mainWindow.show() },
+		{ label: 'Quit', click: () => {
+			console.log("Exiting");
+			app.isQuitting = true;
+			app.quit();
+		}
+		},
+	]);
+
+		tray.setContextMenu(contextMenu);
+		tray.setToolTip(require('./package.json').name + " V" + require('./package.json').version);
+
+		s_mainWindow.on('minimize', (event) => {
+			event.preventDefault();
+			s_mainWindow.hide(); // Hides the window instead of minimizing it to the taskbar
+		});
+
+		s_mainWindow.on('close', (event) => {
+			if (!app.isQuitting) {
+				event.preventDefault();
+				s_mainWindow.hide();
+			}
+		});
+
+		app.dock.hide();
 })
 
 app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
-	if (process.platform !== 'darwin') app.quit()
+	if (process.platform !== 'darwin') app.quit();
 	app.quit();
 })
 

package.json

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   "description": "Gateway for connecting WSJT-* and FLRig to Wavelog",
   "keywords": [],
   "main": "./main.js",
-  "version": "1.1.4",
+  "version": "1.1.5",
   "author": "DJ7NT",
   "scripts": {
     "start": "electron-forge start",