how to: baloon notification for NotifyIcon

[Ram Baruch]

Hi,
I have a NotifyIcon object. The user sees it near the clock on the desktop.
Now, I want to tell the user that something happend (Like when Windows says
that updates are ready to be installed)- a small baloon that comes out of
the icon.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Regards,
Ram.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Ram,

The NotifyIcon class doesn't have support for this, I believe. In order
to do this, you would have to access the API directly.

There is an article on CodeProject.com detailing how to do this. It is
titled "Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip" and can be located at
(watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp

Hope this helps.

 

[Saurabh]

I had done it in Win32 and I would like to add that I had to get platform
SDK updates for the balloon thing,

--Saurabh

Ram,

The NotifyIcon class doesn't have support for this, I believe. In order
to do this, you would have to access the API directly.

There is an article on CodeProject.com detailing how to do this. It is
titled "Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip" and can be located at
(watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- (e-mail address removed)

Hi,
I have a NotifyIcon object. The user sees it near the clock on the desktop.
Now, I want to tell the user that something happend (Like when Windows says
that updates are ready to be installed)- a small baloon that comes out of
the icon.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Regards,
Ram.

 

[Ram Baruch]

its ok, I used the example and it works for me.
Thanks!

I had done it in Win32 and I would like to add that I had to get platform
SDK updates for the balloon thing,

--Saurabh
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Ram,

The NotifyIcon class doesn't have support for this, I believe. In order
to do this, you would have to access the API directly.

There is an article on CodeProject.com detailing how to do this. It is
titled "Displaying a Notify Icon's Balloon Tool Tip" and can be located at
(watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp

Hope this helps.


--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- (e-mail address removed)

Hi,
I have a NotifyIcon object. The user sees it near the clock on the desktop.
Now, I want to tell the user that something happend (Like when Windows says
that updates are ready to be installed)- a small baloon that comes out of
the icon.
Does anyone knows how to do it?
Regards,
Ram.