Can Bubble Notification Windows be modal?

[Guest]

We need to display custom bubble notifications on Pocket PC and these notifications must be displayed topmost regardless of what is currently displayed

We did not find support for bubble notification windows in .NET Compact Framework

We tried CeSetUserNotificationEx from coredll.dll but this does not allow to customize the content+layout of the notification

We then tried SHNotificationAdd, but the resulting notification window is not system modal. It may therefore be hidden by an incoming calendar/task reminder, for instance

Actually what mechanism do the bubble notification window for the calendar/task use... it would seem to do the job for our application

Are there other solutions to display system modal custom notifications? or is it impossible?

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

The Calendar/Tasks applications use the CeSetUserNotificationEx and related
functions for their reminders. You can find class library built around these
functions in the OpenNETCF.Win32.Notify namespace of the Smart Device
Framework (www.opennetcf.org/sdf/). The formatting is not as flexible as
calling the SHNotificationAdd API since you can't use html markup, however
the display works as per the calendar reminders and you can schedule the
bubble to appear at certain times in the future or at certain system events.

Peter