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Notify Ballon on Win32

miyagawa on 2006-07-24T20:45:32

Lazyweb,

do you know how to create a notify balloon tip using Win32::GUI, like http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp

To anyone who has come up with the sample code to show up a balloon like above, I'll give you a Vox standard invite. Thanks!

Baloon tooltip

mkirank on 2006-07-25T00:00:09

Hope this helps.
The newer version of the Win32::Gui.pm has a ShowBalloon method and also you can pass params
-balloon => 0/1
         -balloon_tip => STRING
         -balloon_title => STRING
         -balloon_icon  => STRING
        -balloon_timeout => NUMBER

As per the docs here

# For shell32.dll version 5.0 and later balloon tooltips can be used, # the following options control balloon tooltips. If your version # of shell32.dll does not support balloon tooltips, then these options # are silently ignored:

Re:Baloon tooltip

miyagawa on 2006-07-25T00:12:41

Thanks! Does it mean I need to build the new Win32::GUI using its CVS version? I want to include the feature to my software, so that's not an ideal situation. I'd like to poke the author to make a new release and want someone else to build an PPM for it?

Re:Baloon tooltip

mkirank on 2006-07-25T22:22:07

asking the author for a new release is probably the best idea.

Re:Baloon tooltip

gdm on 2006-07-25T22:33:20

Dave Roth wrote an article called "How to Script In-Your-Face Alerts" that might provide you with the info you are looking for.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/45195/45195.html