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.
Questions tagged [balloon-tip]
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ShowBalloonTip Not Working
On Windows 10, the ShowBalloonTip method of NotifyIcon NEVER shows the balloon tip. This would appear to have something to do with Windows itself.
If I go to Settings > System > Notifications & actions > and find my running app (vshost32.exe in…
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How can I show a Balloon Tip over a textbox?
I have a C# WPF application using XAML and MVVM. My question is: How can I show a balloon tooltip above a text box for some invalid data entered by the user?
I want to use Microsoft's native balloon control for this. How would I implement this into…
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How to create rich tooltips and rich balloons in notification area
I've been wondering, whenever you call the ShowBalloonTip method of the NotifyIcon class, you get a balloon tooltip like this:
Fig1: Standard Balloon Tooltip
Some applications and Microsoft products are able to display more than those 'simple'…
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Balloon-tips with Qt
In my Qt application, I'd like to use balloons/balloon-tips as shown in the Windows user experience guide (not the system tray balloons).
Is this supported by Qt? I haven't found anything. Is there an Open Source library out there for this (Qxt does…
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Displaying 'x' icon in TBalloonHint
How to display 'x' (close) icon in TBalloonHint?
I want to programmatically display near a control on form a balloon hint that looks like notifications in system tray. If this is not what TBalloonHint can do, what should I use?
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C# Windows Forms App - Show balloon tip
I try to show a balloon tip like the one in the screenshot:
First I created a notifyIcon
Then I added this code to the Form1_Load function:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
notifyIcon1.Visible = true;
notifyIcon1.Icon…
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Annoying NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip behaviour
Is it me, or something nasty going on here about NotifyIcon. Whatever I give to timeout parameter of NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip method it is shown for only certain amount of time. Which is around 9 secs on win7 and win 8.1 and around 4 secs on…
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How do I make a tooltip point at a specific label in C#?
In my application I want to use a tooltip to point at a label to get the users attention:
toolTip.IsBalloon = true;
toolTip.Show("message", label1);
The problem is that the balloon isn't pointing at the specified label.
What should I do?
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notifyIcon.BalloonTipClicked firing when tray icon is clicked
I have a tray app backed by a NotifyIcon. It sometimes fires toast notifications via notifyIcon.ShowBallonTip(). It is running on Windows 10 1607.
I'm subscribed to the following two events:
notifyIcon.MouseUp +=…
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Showing a tooltip via TTM_TRACKACTIVATE does not work
In a background process I want to display I short message like a balloon in the tray area. However, I do not want to add a tray icon just for that.
Hence I create a tooltip icon and want it to place near the tray.
However, sending TTM_UPDATETIPTEXT,…
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How to add Balloon Tips to a Cell in JTable,which behave like Tooltips
I want add Balloon Tips to a Cell in JTable,which behave like Tooltips.I mean when Mouse Entered on a Cell it appear and disappear after some time (same as Tooltips But not a Tooltip).I tried this,but didn't work for me as intended.
@Override
public…
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BalloonTipClicked (Closed/Shown) Sender/EventArgs
I am trying to identify which BalloonTip (NotifyIcon) sent the BalloonTipClicked (and Closed, and Shown) events as I have a few different scenarios where balloons may be shown and they aren't all the same nor will have the same expected…
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How to read text from balloon popup window using python?
I am transferring a large file of about 500MB using bluetooth from one system to another. During this time I will get a balloon popup window saying "Bluetooth Connection" having a text that the mode has changed to high speed mode. I want to get this…
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Show balloon notification with latest change log entries on update
I would like to display the latest top 3-5 entries of my extension change log (TXT file) when it's auto-updated and ideally in a balloon-type event like the one when you have successfully installed an extension. It should show/popup near the…
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How to get the BalloonHint size?
I need to position a TBalloonHint at the lower left corner, just above the taskbar.
To be able to calculate the position I need to know the Height and Width of the BalloonHint window.
I can't find any functions or properties that will tell me this…
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