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A Balloon Tip is a special kind of tooltip which looks like a speech balloon.

A Balloon Tip is a special kind of tooltip which looks like a speech balloon.

On Windows systems it is usually shown at the icon in the systray/notification area.

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Refresh Windows Balloon Tip from Python thread

I am using a module for balloon tip notifications in the system tray, whenever the user receives a new message. (using Python 3.3 and Kivy 1.8. I am deploying to windows 7.) I believe the original code comes from this github. This is module as I…
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BalloonHint.ShowHint in Delphi 2010 gets control's hint as title

This is my first time using BalloonHints. I'm using Delphi 2010. I'm not sure I'm using hints properly because in the following scenario, I get a hint with the same text twice: once as title, once as body. I've struggled for some time with this,…
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Balloontip flickering when routine loops

So, the program displays a balloontip for the first time. If it is clicked, it disappears and the program continues. If it isn't clicked, the balloontip fades out, waits five minutes, then flickers on and off very quickly, freezing the program. …
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Detecting if balloon tooltip is visible

My program makes heavy use of the Windows build-in balloon tooltips, but on some system they are just not displayed. This can have so many different causes (for example: EnableBalloonTips, ShowInfoTip, DisablePreviewDesktop, TaskbarNoNotification…
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Display tooltip when a item of ComboBox exceeds the visible limit?

In my app, which is a WF project, I have a combobox with directories: If a directory is too large the user can't see the entire directory name. Now, in most applications I see that if a item of a combobox or textbox exceeds the visible limit then a…
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Keep NotifyIcon balloon tip on screen

Is it possible to set, that the balloon tip do not fade away unless I close it? This is my code: PazIcon.BalloonTipText = "It has happened!"; PazIcon.BalloonTipTitle = "Information"; PazIcon.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Info; PazIcon.Visible =…
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Balloon Tip on any control like notify icon?

I have a win form application with custom tray Icon like this: I want to a notification with balloon tip to user like windows tray icon, with close button and show to user for ever until pressed close button): Using tool tip in ballon mode can…
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ShowBalloonTip(): message appears with delay

In Windows 7 64 bit, Visual Studio 2010 Express, C#, NET 2.0, Windows Forms, I have an option in a context menu that hides my application (or minimizes it) to an icon in the notification area. The notification icon is always visible, as the…
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Can I use a Balloon tip from one class, while the NotifyIcon resides in a different class?

I have my main form which has a NotifyIcon attached for balloon tips. I have a separate BalloonTip class which does some processing to determine what goes into the balloon. How can I use the notifyIcon in my main form/class from my BalloonTip…
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C# - Windows 2000 BalloonTip Events workaround

Ive been looking all over for a workaround for this but have found nothing besides "Just have them click the NotifyIcon". Windows 2000 obviously does not support BalloonTip events but I need a way to detect when either the balloon tip is clicked or…
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Long multi-line tooltips cut off if first line is too short

Trying to show a balloon hint in Windows normally works fine: Looket here • This is a short line And you can have very long balloon hints: Looket here • This is a a very long line, certainly longer than the last example And you can have…
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Set colors for Windows native balloon tooltips when visual styles are on

I have a legacy code that creates Windows native balloon tooltips. In previous versions of Windows I could set custom background and foreground colors for tooltips using the TTM_SETTIPBKCOLOR and TTM_SETTIPTEXTCOLOR messages with the following…
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How to display a classic BalloonTip in system tray of Windows 10 instead of a Toast Notification in C#?

I am building a Windows Forms application for Windows, based on .Net 4.7.2 framework. The application is intended to work on Windows 10 plus Windows Server 2019 systems. When a user minimizes the app and the app goes to tray, I want to display a…
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Balloon tip notifications not clearing from the sys tray?

I have created a VB.Net program that uses the following code to send balloon tip notifications to the systray: notify = New NotifyIcon notify.Visible = True notify.BalloonTipTitle = title notify.BalloonTipText = body notify.Icon =…
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Balloon Notification Error when using the TaskbarIcon Library for a WPF Project

I'm trying to implement the a Balloon Notification to appear when a button is clicked however I keep receiving a specific error: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'TaskbarIcon.ShowBalloonTip(string,…
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