Systray Icon

24 Oct 2006 3:30 PM

Nate

ok,

So .net makes it pretty easy to add a systray icon now. However, does
anyone know of a way to force the text (tooltip) to appear. Instead of it
only appearing when the mouse goes over it can it be forced to appear for
say 5 seconds?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Nate

24 Oct 2006 8:11 PM

The Grim Reaper

Nate,

In the System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon object, there is a method called
ShowBalloonTop(), which accepts a parameter for the display time.

HTH
________________________________________
The Grim Reaper

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"Nate" <n***@hello.com> wrote in message
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> ok,
>
> So .net makes it pretty easy to add a systray icon now. However, does
> anyone know of a way to force the text (tooltip) to appear. Instead of it
> only appearing when the mouse goes over it can it be forced to appear for
> say 5 seconds?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Nate
>

24 Oct 2006 8:50 PM

Nate

Mr. Reaper

I'm played around with .net and having a hard time getting this bit of code
to work. Could your provide a example code sniplet?

Nate

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> Nate,
>
> In the System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon object, there is a method called
> ShowBalloonTop(), which accepts a parameter for the display time.
>
> HTH
> ________________________________________
> The Grim Reaper
>
> "Nate" <n***@hello.com> wrote in message
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>> ok,
>>
>> So .net makes it pretty easy to add a systray icon now. However, does
>> anyone know of a way to force the text (tooltip) to appear. Instead of
>> it only appearing when the mouse goes over it can it be forced to appear
>> for say 5 seconds?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>> Nate
>>
>
>

24 Oct 2006 8:59 PM

Chris Dunaway

Nate wrote:

> Mr. Reaper
>
> I'm played around with .net and having a hard time getting this bit of code
> to work. Could your provide a example code sniplet?

It's simple code. Example is in the docs:

notifyIcon1.BalloonTipTitle = "Balloon Tip Title"
notifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "Balloon Tip Text."
notifyIcon1.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Error

notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(30) 'Shows the ballon tip for 30
milliseconds

It's not that hard.

25 Oct 2006 7:34 PM

Nate

Odd why do I get the following error?

'ShowBalloonTip' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon'.

I did a search in the help documents 'showballoontip' comes back with
nothing.

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"Chris Dunaway" <dunaw***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Nate wrote:
>> Mr. Reaper
>>
>> I'm played around with .net and having a hard time getting this bit of
>> code
>> to work. Could your provide a example code sniplet?
>
> It's simple code. Example is in the docs:
>
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipTitle = "Balloon Tip Title"
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "Balloon Tip Text."
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Error
>
> notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(30) 'Shows the ballon tip for 30
> milliseconds
>
> It's not that hard.
>

25 Oct 2006 7:34 PM

Nate

Odd why do I get the following error?

'ShowBalloonTip' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon'.

I did a search in the help documents 'showballoontip' comes back with
nothing.

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"Chris Dunaway" <dunaw***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Nate wrote:
>> Mr. Reaper
>>
>> I'm played around with .net and having a hard time getting this bit of
>> code
>> to work. Could your provide a example code sniplet?
>
> It's simple code. Example is in the docs:
>
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipTitle = "Balloon Tip Title"
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "Balloon Tip Text."
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Error
>
> notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(30) 'Shows the ballon tip for 30
> milliseconds
>
> It's not that hard.
>

25 Oct 2006 9:29 PM

Chris Dunaway

Nate wrote:

> Odd why do I get the following error?
>
> 'ShowBalloonTip' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon'.
>

The only thing I can think of is that the BallonTip functionality was
added in .Net 2.0. Are you using 2.0 or 1.1?

If you are using 1.1, then see this link:

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/notifyiconex.asp

Good Luck!

Chris

26 Oct 2006 7:06 PM

Nate

I thought this was a vb (Visual Basic) newsgroup and not C#?
That sample project does what I want but I'm not knowledgeable enough in C#
to take it apart.

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"Chris Dunaway" <dunaw***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Nate wrote:
>> Odd why do I get the following error?
>>
>> 'ShowBalloonTip' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon'.
>>
>
> The only thing I can think of is that the BallonTip functionality was
> added in .Net 2.0. Are you using 2.0 or 1.1?
>
> If you are using 1.1, then see this link:
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/notifyiconex.asp
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Chris
>

25 Oct 2006 7:36 PM

Nate

Odd why do I get the following error?

'ShowBalloonTip' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon'.

I did a search in the help documents 'showballoontip' comes back with
nothing.

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"Chris Dunaway" <dunaw***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Nate wrote:
>> Mr. Reaper
>>
>> I'm played around with .net and having a hard time getting this bit of
>> code
>> to work. Could your provide a example code sniplet?
>
> It's simple code. Example is in the docs:
>
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipTitle = "Balloon Tip Title"
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "Balloon Tip Text."
> notifyIcon1.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Error
>
> notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(30) 'Shows the ballon tip for 30
> milliseconds
>
> It's not that hard.
>