Notify bubbles on PPC 2003

[David Glover]

Hi all,

My colleague has a small problem which I have attempted to find a
solution to, to no avail. The situation is that he wishes to pop up a
notification bubble when certain things happen within his applicaion.
We have already tried the OPENNETCF solution, however this fails to
work on PPC 2003 (due to the Notification API being in a different
place/implemented differently on PPC 2003??).

The solution at gotdotnet
(http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/CompactFramework/doc/notifications.aspx)
provides the behaviour required, however it does not permit the
ability to pop up an icon in the title pane, and hang the notification
from that. We are after recreating the behaviour of MSN messenger on
the PPC where upon reciept of a message, the MSN icon appears next to
the speaker icon, and the new message is hung from that.

Is this possible using the .NET Compact Framework, or are we going to
have to survive with hanging it off the clock??

Thanks for any help,

Regards,
David Glover

 

[éric]

I use the OpenNETCF library without any problems on both ppc2k2 and ppc2k3
the only issue is that on ppc2k2 the transparent parts of the icon appear in
black

Regards,

éric

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

The APIs are implemented the same on Pocket PC 2003 (and there are a couple
of extra flags which can be used to force the screen when a notification is
shown). There are some limitations with the Icon handling because the
functions require a native icon handle so we can't support a managed
System.Drawing.Icon directly.

Peter

 

[David Glover]

Hi,

Thanks for the input. We have now managaed to get it all working

Regards

David