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[iebidan]

Ive been reading for the last 4 days about using balloon tooltips outside the systray, found many code for VB6 and C#, none of them functional. I read avery article that Microsoft has and none of them is helpful.
Does anyone has a good link or code for showing balloon tooltips outside the systray (like the one you get in WXP when you have the Caps Lock on and try to unblock Windows) for .NET???
Any help will be appreciated.

 

[-Strict-]

I saw a usercontrol that someone did not too long ago... it was a system try icon with balloon popup functionality. cant remember who did it or where it was, but I think it was called NotifyXP or NotifyIconXP.. . i know it had Notify and XP in the name Sounds like its what your looking for, but I never tried it. Ill poke around a little and see if i can find where i saw that again.

 

[iebidan]

Thanks for the help, but I think that control was wrote by me (I wrote one a couple months ago), also some other persons did the same, but what Im looking for is a tooltip control with a balloon shape that can be used in diff controls like a text box or a combobox
Thanks anyway, right now Im writting something to see if meets my demands, if I can do something great Ill post it here so everyone will have access to it

Regards

 

[Divil]

I think theres just a flag you can apply to normal tooltips to make them appear as balloons. I already have a working implementation of tooltips through win32 so perhaps Ill give it a shot.

 

[iebidan]

Im also trying to do something, I just know that you need to use CreateWindowsEX, SendMessage, and two other API calls to do it... but I dont have enough time to create it, too much work and so little time. I hope some day you can tell me that you did it

Regards

 

[Divil]

Ok, I just had to try it. All I had to do was apply TTS_BALLOON to my tooltip windows style and it worked.

 

[Divil]

Ok, Im going to upload an example in the code library of how to get the .NET tooltip extended to use balloons instead of regular tooltips.

 

[iebidan]

Ill be waiting for this

 

[Divil]

I did it last night...

 

[iebidan]

Great, soooo.... where is it???? Im willing to see the code, BTW does anyone here has a good API link or documentation???? I need to update somehow my documents about APIs and .NET

Thanks

 

[jfackler]

http://www.computerhelp.forum/t72682.html