Many applications offer context menus associated with the application’s icon. On Windows and Mac OS X, these menus are located in the system tray and dock bar, respectively. The AIR runtime allows you to manage and interact with the system tray and dock bar icons of your application.

In this tutorial, Marco Casario has put together a very thorough tutorial on how you can integrate dock and system tray icon menus using Adobe AIR. He will also take you through the process of integrating this on Mac OS X and Windows.