NotifyIcon control: Customer behaviour

[Claus Konrad]

Hi

How would you "force" the ToolTip text to be displayed on a NotifyIcon?
I want to inform the user that an action has happened in the "background",
and would like to present this text using the taskbar control (NotifyIcon).

It is not possible to inherit from System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon and
thereby creating an event to do this stuff, and there is no native event
called "MouseOver" or something like that...

Thanks!

/Claus

[Robert Misiak]

You could always do so using a balloon window instead of a tooltip. I'm not
sure if there is an "official" documented way to use balloon windows, but
Joel Matthias wrote an article on using balloon windows with C# at
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/notifyballoon.asp. On the subject of
balloon windows, does anyone know of a better way to do them? I have a
product that uses them, however I've found that they only show up on 75% of
the machines that use them, the others never display balloon windows.

Robert
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Hi

How would you "force" the ToolTip text to be displayed on a NotifyIcon?
I want to inform the user that an action has happened in the "background",
and would like to present this text using the taskbar control (NotifyIcon).
It is not possible to inherit from System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon and
thereby creating an event to do this stuff, and there is no native event
called "MouseOver" or something like that...

Thanks!

/Claus