Tray Baloon Notifications

[Aramir]

There is a feature in Win2K/ME/XP, called "tray baloon". Looks like this:

http://www.beseder.net/temp/traybaloon.gif

(screenshot was taken from Watznew program)

I think its a great way to notify user about important stuff. Following events should be available (as options) for tray baloon notificatios:

- connecting to <...>
- connected to <...>
- transfer started: <filename.xxx> (xxx Kb)
- transfer completed: <filename.xxx> (in <hh:mm:ss>)
- transfer completed: <filename.xxx> (in <hh:mm:ss>), Queue Empty
- disconnected: <reason>

Current "sounds" menu can be modified to include these notifications setup.

[MidKnight]

balloons annoy the crap out of me to be honest

[bigstar]

Hello,

Would you happen to know which Windows API's are used for displaying these Tray Balloons? I've never heard of them before.

[Ammo1]

I found this lying around...

Option Explicit
Private WithEvents sysTray As SystemTray.Application

Private Sub Form_Load()
Set sysTray = New SystemTray.Application
Call sysTray.CreateIcon(App.Path & "\Trffc10c.ico", "My Icon")
Call sysTray.ShowBalloon("Hello", &H1, "www.flasfxp.com.com")
End Sub



attached is also a baloon control thanx to vbrad.com ...

[Aramir]

Originally posted by bigstar
Would you happen to know which Windows API's are used for displaying these Tray Balloons? I've never heard of them before. Here is a link (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/tooltip/usingtooltips.asp) to MSDN article "Using ToolTip controls", go to "Baloon Tooltips" there.

[Celerex_2]

BStar - You're programming in Delphi right? I might have some explicit Delphi code for doing this..

[bigstar]

yeah, delphi

[Celerex_2]

I'll take a look.

[Celerex_2]

I kinda looked at this and it had some good stuff in it. Not sure how useful for you it'll be but who knows.

Cool Try Example (http://www.vclcomponents.com/download.asp?ID_COMPONENT=14441)

[Raccoon]

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[Celerex_2]

I'll attach the file and this is the guys homepage http://www3.brinkster.com/troels/

[bigstar]

This wont make it into v2.1 but I'll add it to the to-do list.