Balloon Backlog - Activating Notify Icon Tooltip?

Feb 9, 2010

Every six minutes, my program talks to an instrument. Then, it activates a notify icon's tool tip for half a second to say what it did and when. According to the databases, everything's been going great, but the balloon tip text is a week behind and still trying to catch up. I'm getting text after text about stuff that happened last week. You should know that no one's touched the machine for at least a week. Because the program talks to the instrument every six minutes, the computer never hibernates, never shuts down, and the screen saver is off.

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Balloon Tooltip Info Icon?

Oct 18, 2009

I have a notifyicon in my VB.NET application. At the start of the programm it goes to the system tray and adds some global hotkeys. If one of this keys is pressed, then a balloon tooltip appears. At design time I have set up the balloon icon as 'Info'. But when the balloon tooltip appears, no 'Info' icon comes up, only the standard balloon tooltip. However, when the icon type is set up to 'Error' or 'Warning', it works. Why this behaviour? (on Vista)

An another problem is, that I set the timeout property f.i. to 500 milliseconds, the balloon tooltip is even visible after some seconds too.

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Show Balloon Tooltip From Another Form?

Jun 13, 2010

I want to display a balloon tooltip in the system tray. Currently, my app has four forms. the main form host the notifyicon. In process of operation with other forms, i want the current form to be hidden , and display a balloon message using the notifyicon of the main form.

in the form about to close this is what i did

c# Code:
frmMain frm2 = new frmMain();
frm2.ShowBallon("Logged in","Check for new mail....");
this.Close();

[Code].....

The problem is that the procedure executes, but dosen't show any balloon .Another problem is that the notify icon does not disapper automatically when the app exits, except you hover the mopuse over it.

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VS 2008 Balloon Tooltip Not Pointing Where I Specify?

Nov 28, 2011

I have a balloon tool tip and want to show it as follows:

vb
Dim CompleteTooltip As New ToolTip With {.IsBalloon = True, .ToolTipTitle = "Title", .ToolTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Info}
CompleteTooltip.Show("Click close to confirm changes", btnClose, CInt(btnClose.Width / 2), CInt(btnClose.Height / 2), 5000)

i would have thought if i specify that i want a balloon tooltip the point that i specify would be the point that the balloon points to - NOT the upper left point of the tooltip itself... how can i specify the balloon point rather than the upper left point?

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IDE :: Balloon Tooltip's Stem Does Not Point Correctly?

Sep 26, 2011

We are seeing a problem with tooltip balloon that its stem is not pointing to the control to which it is associated Our requirement is thatfter a button click, the tooltip should pop up for a second or two without mouse hover.Then, when the cursor is hovered on the control, then the balloon should be seenWe are successful with point 2 but for the point 1, the tooltip's stemis pointing to some random location instead of the control of interest.

The code is as follows -
errorTooltip.IsBalloon = True
errorTooltip.UseAnimation = True

[code].....

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Make A Little Class To Show The Balloon Tooltip?

Apr 28, 2012

I am trying to make a little class to show the balloon tooltip at the moment I got eveything I want working but have no idea how to set the forecolor of text and backcolor.

here the code I am using to show the tip, I added backcolor and forecolor but nothing seems to happen, I am also using Visual Express 2010 if that makes any difference.

vbnet
Public Sub ShowTip(ByVal obj As Control)
Dim tp As New ToolTip()

[Code]......

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VS 2008 Owner Draw Balloon Tooltip In Sys Tray?

Dec 11, 2011

If i have a NotifyIcon is it possible to owner draw the balloon tip for it?If not i was thinking it would have to be done this way:Work out if the icon is visible or not (as in not collapsed in windows vista / 7 / xp), and if not call ShowBalloonTip to force the icon visible then hide the balloon somehow. Work out the rect in relatio

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VS 2008 - Balloon Tooltip Show Invalid Filename Characters

Apr 11, 2009

I am using a Balloon tooltip to show the user which characters are invalid as a filename. I use the IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars array and convert each character to a string, before appending it to a "Invalid filename characters:" string.
vb.net

If IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars.Contains(e.KeyChar) Then
e.Handled = True
Dim str As String = "The following characters are invalid filename characters:" & nl
Dim invalidChars As New List(Of String)
For Each c As Char In IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars
[Code] .....

The result is not pretty: How do I get rid of the 'non-visual' characters (they are probably newlines, backspaces, null chars, etc) so they don't clutter up the list?

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Custom Large Icon For Balloon Tooltips?

Feb 12, 2008

I cannot seem to figure out how to use a large icon (I'm assuming 64x64) in balloon tooltips, like when installing new hardware device drivers. I already have the icon resource added, and when I have it coded:

Me.afkNotifyIcon.BalloonTipIcon = AFK_Timer.My.Resources.clock_balloonicon

I get the error: "Value of type 'System.Drawing.Icon' cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.Forms.ToolTipIcon'."

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Notify Icon Doesn't Appear

Nov 4, 2011

I have absolutely no clue why my notify icon will not appear. I use notifyicon1.visible = true on the form's load event, but it seems to not be working. I have tried every single thing possible. Does anyone know what is going on???"When the going gets tough, the tough get Chuck Norris"

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Notify Icon Is Not Visible?

Jun 15, 2009

I made a small app that uses a hidden form and shows a notify icon to do some things with, strange thing is that the notify icon is not visible. I changed the opacity of the form back to 100% to make sure the form is open and it is. I also step through the code to make sure it was executing and it is. I also published the single form app and installed it on another machine and the same problem exist as the debug machine.

I made another test app with only a form and a notify icon and in the load event of the form, I put the same code minus the if statement and still no notify icon.Is this a bug in VS08 Pro?Heres my code

NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(10000000, "Reminders", "No settings have been entered", ToolTipIcon.Warning)

NotifyIcon1.Visible = True

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Place A Custom Icon In A Tray Notification Balloon?

Apr 4, 2012

I am trying to place a custom icon in a tray notification balloon, such as when you install updates from Windows Update, it shows a balloon in the tray with a custom icon.

How can I do this in VB.net?

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IDE :: Notify Icon Ballons Not Appearing?

Apr 30, 2009

I use VB9 in Visual Studio 2008, and I've written a program that includes a notify icon.

I have both the balloon title and text set up with the text that I want displayed but it doesn't seem to work (on this or another test machine).

When the program first starts, the balloon appears in the system tray, then quickly disappears.

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Notify Icon And System Tray?

Oct 21, 2005

I've been successful with this in VB6. The VS2005 notifyicon class is certainly much nicer and much improved.I've implemented a notifyicon and it's working as expected with one exception.

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Notify Icon To Focus Application

May 27, 2011

I have been working with the Notify Icon to make it easier for some who prefer minimizing an application into the notification bar rather than the task bar. I have a drop down item that allows the user to Show in Notification area if checked. If it's not checked, then the form reverts back to default with the task bar. However, when this is checked and I minimize the form, I can not open the form from the notification tray. The problem is when the notify icon is visible and clicked, I need it to run code. If the form is minimized, I want it to show the app when I click the icon.

Here is my code:
Private Sub ShowInTaskbarToolStripMenuItem_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles ShowInTaskbarToolStripMenuItem.Click
If ShowInTaskbarToolStripMenuItem.Checked = True Then
NotifyIcon1.Visible = True
[Code] .....

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Notify Icon/Minimize To Tray?

Jun 13, 2010

recently been working on an application and added a minimize to tray feature. An update to the program made it so I could run multiple instances of the application without them interfering with each other. Which is great and what I had planned. BUT now when more than 1 instance of the application is running I have two notify(tray)icons on the system tray.My question is how, if its even possible, would I make both minimize into the same tray icon and just add a contextmenuitem to the right click menu (listing the name of the windows that are minimized). I hope thats not too confusing.I know how to add the contextmenuitems that won't be an issue once I can figure out how to get the windowstate of the other instance of the application.

instance1\..................................................._open instance1.windowcaption
...............\_______trayicon>contextmenu__/__open instance2.windowcaption
.............../................................................\___close all instances

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Use A Notify Icon Control To A VB WPF Project?

Sep 10, 2008

I have a little problem trying to port a C++ approach to use a notify icon control to a VB WPF project.

Code:
m_notifyIcon.Click += new EventHandler(m_notifyIcon_Click);

VS says that m_notifyIcon.Click is an event and can not be called directly and that I should use RaiseEvent.

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VS 2010 With Streamreader And Notify Icon Tip?

Feb 25, 2011

im having problem with this code, what i want it to do it go on the site nd if it finds the word online it switches the text so say it directed to google and the word online is somewhere in the html code of the site, the app should then change label 5 to online BUT i get this error

"Could not find file 'C:UsersOwnerDesktopAMi BETAAMi BETAinDebugwww.google.com'."everything i want the notifyicon to do is working but i only want it to pop up once but every time the timer ticks it pops up

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ServerStatus.Tick

[Code]...

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Forms :: How To Close Notify Icon Cleanly

Jun 3, 2010

I noticed that when the app closed the icon remained on the taskbar until the mouse was hovered over it, so added this:-
If Not AlarmClockNotify Is Nothing Then
AlarmClockNotify.Dispose()
End If
.. and that did the job.

Then I noticed that if the balloon was showing at the time the app was closed, the icon went - but the balloon stayed, so added this:-
If Not AlarmClockNotify Is Nothing Then
AlarmClockNotify.Visible = False
AlarmClockNotify.Visible = True
AlarmClockNotify.Dispose()
End If

and everything worked fine until the app was closed WITHOUT the icon showing (only dislays if an alarm is pending in the next x days) - then it throws and 'object reference not set to an instance of an object' - odd because it passed straight through the 'not is nothing' If statement.

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Notify Icon Does Not Show When The Form Is Minimized?

Jun 9, 2011

I want the form to hide when I click on the minimize button, then the notify icon will show up on the system tray. I have this piece of code:

(ntfLibSMS is the name of my notify icon)
Private Sub LibSMS_Resize(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Resize

[code].....

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Notify Icon Functionality Not Working In Windows 7?

Aug 16, 2010

I have added a minimize to tray function into my webbrowser and it makes use of the notify icon control. Now I know my code isn't flawed as it works in vista in xp but not in 7 (The icon simply is not in the tray).

Me.Hide()
NotifyIcon.Text = ("Xtreme Browser, Current User: " + Current_User)
NotifyIcon.Visible = True

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Notify Icon Increasing In System Tray?

Apr 20, 2011

I have a application which is written in background worker. Inside the background worker i am creating the multiple threads . The application has one notify icon. When i creating threads the notify icon gets duplicated for each thread. Suppose if i am running three threads means , there are 4 icons in the system tray.

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Restore App By Double Clicking On Notify Icon?

Aug 22, 2009

i created a notify icon for my application...whenever i minimize my app,it will go to system tray.. how to restore my app BY double clicking on my notify icon?

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Animated Notify Icon Like The Task Manager Graph?

Mar 31, 2010

I'm trying to create a bandwidth monitor - I've done most of it, but I want to have a notifyicon that changes dependent on the bandwidth.

The same as when you open task manager and then minimise it, there is a little animated bar graph by the clock showing CPU usage...

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VS 2008 - Applying Progressbar To Notify Icon (Taskbar)?

May 22, 2010

I'm working on a project with FTPwebrequest methods, the problem is that every time the program executes a FTP command such as download/upload/connect, It completely freezes the form. However I need a progressbar to keep the user updated of the download status. The only way I can see this working is applying the progressbar to a notifyicon(taskbar).

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VS 2008 - Split Text Into Two Lines In Notify Icon

Sep 17, 2010

I'm trying to split the text into two lines in a NotifyIcon1.
My code
NotifyIcon1.Text = "Line1" & My.Application.Info.Version.ToString & _
" Line2 " & "Test"

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Add A Context Menu Left Click Event To A Notify Icon?

Feb 19, 2011

A notifyIcon is down in task bar, a user left clicks on it, how to show the contextmenu after left click?

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Show Small Form Like Tool Tip Top Of Notify-icon On Task-bar

Feb 5, 2010

i need to show linklabel in notifyicon tooltip ballon..if its impossible can i show smal form like tool tip top of the NotifyIcon on the taskbar

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VS 2008 Notify Icon - Button That Will Minimize The Program To The System Tray

Oct 2, 2009

I have a button that will Minimize the program to the system tray. How would it to look something like the picture on the bottom when the Notify Icon is clicked once or right clicked?

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Draw A Custom Icon Into A Tooltip?

Apr 4, 2010

Not a single site anywhere, and I have even tried the MSDN, that details in any specific language how to draw a custom icon into a tooltip.

I have tried using every format of image I can produce, including (but not limited to) ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP, JPG etc... But every time, the app debugger clouts me round the head in defiance.. Windows Vista CAN do it.. and as in the image above.. StarDock figured it out..

I know your policy is to have the askee produce their code first, but the thing for me is

Also, I wonder if it would not be possible to take the code that does do the whole shabang, and compile it into a DLL or something that I can just embed for future projects - again this can be uploaded for others to refer to.

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