NotifyIcon - mouse hover event? (VB.Net2005)

[Ajb2528]

Hi,

I have written a small applet in VB.Net 2005 that shrinks to the system tray. What I would like to do is to display a balloon tip instead of the value of the text property when the mouse is hovering over the icon in the system tray.

Can anyone help?

Regards,

Alan

 

[TipGiver]

Where is the problem that you have?

 

[Ajb2528]

The problem that I have is that there is no mousehover event on the NotifyIcon component.

 

[TipGiver]

Try this example (very good):

http://www.vbcodesource.org/downloads/vbNet2005/systemTrayEx-Beta2.zip

In order to show it, you can call the method to show the baloon in the Mouse Move event of the notifyIcon.

 

[Ajb2528]

Tipgiver,

I have tried using the mousemove event and the balloon does appear but then does not disappear until you end the applet thru visual studio!

 

[TipGiver]

Hmm, it works fine for me - I had tested it before posting.

 

[Ajb2528]

Tipgiver,

Heres the code that I used...

Private Sub NotifyIcon1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.MouseMove
NotifyIcon1.Text = "Test123"
NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "Hello"
NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(1)
End Sub

Any ideas?

Regards,

Alan

 

[TipGiver]

It works fine too ! #$#

Just for info, the notify icon control can use the text as the tooltip's text. This appears when the user hovers the mouse. The *baloon properties are to inform the user of something (just like windows do). It is an alternative way ... against popup forms.
I am not sure if you can extend that control and assign to it a real 2.0 tooltexttip control

 

[Ajb2528]

What OS are you running? XP? Cos we are running Win2K. I'm just wondering wether this may have something to do with the balloon not disappearing....