OT: Those neet windows in outlook and msn

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Visual Systems AB \(Martin Arvidsson\)

Hi!

When a mail arrives in outlook, a neet little window is displayed on the
lower right corner of the screen. Is there a .DLL in windows to use this in
your own application, or any other neet trick to simulate this?

Also, there is a window in msn that slides up on the screen when a mail
arrives or a contact connects.
Same here is there a .DLL in windows to use this i your own app or any other
neet trick to simulate this?

Regards
Martin
 
Hi,

You have access to the system try using NotifyIcon class, OE should use this
to display the correct icon

The sliding windows should be some clever manipulation of a window, probably
if you check in google you will find how to do it , also it's possible a
third party control exist that does that.

cheers,
 
There's another example on codeguru called TaskbarNotifierDemo that
shows you how to use bitmaps as the backgrounds to your pop-up windows
just like MSN. While the example they have "slide" the window it's
very easy to change it to fade the window out.
 
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