You can add a menu to the system tray icon by creating a NativeMenu object and assigning it to the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.menu property (no default menu is provided by the operating system). Access the system tray icon menu by right-clicking the icon.

Add a tooltip to an icon by setting the tooltip property:

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.tooltip = "Application name"; 

The SystemTrayIcon object referenced by the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon property dispatches a ScreenMouseEvent for click, mouseDown, mouseUp, rightClick, rightMouseDown, and rightMouseUp events. You can use these events, along with an icon menu, to allow users to interact with your application when it has no visible windows.

The following example creates an AIR application which has a system tray icon, but no visible windows. (The visible property of the application must not be set to true in the application descriptor, or the window will be visible when the application starts up.)

package 
{ 
    import flash.display.Loader; 
    import flash.display.NativeMenu; 
    import flash.display.NativeMenuItem; 
    import flash.display.NativeWindow; 
    import flash.display.Sprite; 
    import flash.desktop.DockIcon; 
    import flash.desktop.SystemTrayIcon; 
    import flash.events.Event; 
    import flash.net.URLRequest; 
    import flash.desktop.NativeApplication; 
 
    public class SysTrayApp extends Sprite 
    { 
        public function SysTrayApp():void{ 
            NativeApplication.nativeApplication.autoExit = false; 
            var icon:Loader = new Loader(); 
            var iconMenu:NativeMenu = new NativeMenu(); 
            var exitCommand:NativeMenuItem = iconMenu.addItem(new NativeMenuItem("Exit")); 
                exitCommand.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, function(event:Event):void { 
                    NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.bitmaps = []; 
                    NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit(); 
                }); 
 
            if (NativeApplication.supportsSystemTrayIcon) { 
                NativeApplication.nativeApplication.autoExit = false; 
                icon.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, iconLoadComplete); 
                icon.load(new URLRequest("icons/AIRApp_16.png")); 
                 
                var systray:SystemTrayIcon =  
                    NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon as SystemTrayIcon; 
                systray.tooltip = "AIR application"; 
                systray.menu = iconMenu; 
            } 
 
            if (NativeApplication.supportsDockIcon){ 
                icon.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,iconLoadComplete); 
                icon.load(new URLRequest("icons/AIRApp_128.png")); 
                var dock:DockIcon = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon as DockIcon;  
                dock.menu = iconMenu; 
            } 
        } 
         
        private function iconLoadComplete(event:Event):void 
        { 
            NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon.bitmaps = 
                [event.target.content.bitmapData]; 
        } 
    } 
}