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On Windows SetLabel is documented to do the same thing as SetTooltip, but the Windows setLabel was an empty stub and show() only ever applied the tooltip, so a label set before Run never reached the icon. SetLabel and SetTooltip also stopped storing the value once the platform impl existed, so Label() kept returning the pre-Run text.

setLabel now goes through setTooltip, show() falls back to the label when no tooltip is set, and both values are stored before dispatching to the impl. The new test for Label() fails on master and passes here. I haven't hovered a real tray icon with this build, but the tooltip path is the existing Shell_NotifyIcon call.

Fixes #6045

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved system tray text handling for more consistent label and tooltip updates.
    • Explicit tooltips now take precedence over labels when both are set.
    • Clearing a tooltip correctly restores the tray label as the displayed text.
    • Tray labels and tooltips remain consistent when updated before or after the application starts, including rapid successive updates.

The docs say SetLabel behaves like SetTooltip on Windows, but the Windows
setLabel was an empty stub and show() only applied the tooltip when the
icon was added, so a label set before Run never reached the icon either.

Route the Windows setLabel through setTooltip, fall back to the label in
show() when no tooltip is set, and store the label and tooltip on the
SystemTray before dispatching to the platform impl so Label() reports
the current value once the tray is running.

Fixes wailsapp#6045
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System tray label and tooltip state now use locking and a shared fallback helper. Windows updates recompute the current tooltip or label at dispatch time. Tests cover post-start label updates and cleared-tooltip fallback.

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System tray behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Synchronize label and tooltip state
v3/pkg/application/systemtray.go, v3/pkg/application/systemtray_test.go
SetLabel and SetTooltip synchronize stored values before initialization checks. Label reads under a read lock. tooltipOrLabel returns the explicit tooltip or the label. Tests cover post-start updates and tooltip fallback.
Apply tooltip precedence on Windows
v3/pkg/application/systemtray_windows.go
Windows label and tooltip updates use the current tooltipOrLabel result. Initial tray registration uses the shared updater. Clearing a tooltip restores the label fallback.

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Windows tray labels now provide the hover tooltip when no explicit tooltip is set, while explicit tooltips retain precedence. No merge-blocking risk is currently identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Application as SystemTray
  participant WindowsTray as Windows tray updater
  participant OS as Windows notification area
  Application->>Application: Store label or tooltip under textLock
  Application->>WindowsTray: Recompute tooltipOrLabel()
  WindowsTray->>OS: Update tray hover text
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A rabbit guards the tray text bright
The label waits beneath the light
An explicit tooltip takes the lead
When cleared, the label fills the need
Windows shows the current feed

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary Windows system tray fix.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the bug, implementation, linked issue, and test result. It does not include the template checklists or full test configuration, but the core information is present.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #6045 by routing Windows SetLabel through the tooltip path, using the label as the fallback tooltip, and preserving the latest label and tooltip state.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The mutex protection, tooltip precedence, fallback behavior, platform dispatch changes, and related tests directly support the linked issue and stated objectives. No unrelated changes are evident.
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In `@v3/pkg/application/systemtray_windows.go`:
- Line 532: Update the SetLabel flow and show() so explicit tooltips
consistently take precedence over labels, including immediately after SetLabel
and after an Explorer restart. Add a regression test covering
SetTooltip("explicit") followed by SetLabel("label") and verify both display
paths preserve the explicit tooltip.

In `@v3/pkg/application/systemtray.go`:
- Line 120: Synchronize access to the persisted tray state fields used by
SetLabel, SetTooltip, Label, and Windows show(). Guard reads and writes with the
existing synchronization mechanism, or serialize all accesses through
InvokeSync, while preserving the current getter and display behavior.

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SetTooltip("x") followed by SetLabel("y") showed "y" until Explorer
restarted, when show() put "x" back. Both paths now go through
SystemTray.tooltipOrLabel, so an explicit tooltip always wins and the
label is only the fallback.

SetLabel and SetTooltip also wrote label and tooltip on the caller
goroutine while Label() and the Windows show() read them. Guard the two
fields with a small RWMutex.

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In `@v3/pkg/application/systemtray.go`:
- Around line 302-304: Update the Windows tooltip-clearing path in
SystemTray.SetTooltip to pass tooltipOrLabel() rather than the raw tooltip
value, preserving the label as fallback when the tooltip is empty. Add a
platform-facing test covering SetLabel("label") followed by SetTooltip("") and
verifying the native tooltip receives the label.
- Around line 122-124: Update SetLabel and SetTooltip to serialize or version
their platform-dispatched callbacks consistently with the textLock write order,
ensuring older queued callbacks cannot overwrite newer tray text while Label and
tooltipOrLabel return the latest values. Apply the ordering mechanism across the
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SetTooltip("") handed the empty string straight to the Windows setTooltip,
which wrote an empty SzTip, so SetLabel("label"); SetTooltip("") left the
hover text blank instead of showing the label.

setTooltip and setLabel now both apply SystemTray.tooltipOrLabel through
one updateTooltip. The value is read when the dispatched call runs rather
than captured at the call site, so the icon always ends up with the latest
stored text whatever order the calls land in.
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