BalloonTip

BalloonTip

• #Sid

  Ok, well I worked out my problem. Apparently, there is a minimum and maximum value that you can set for the BalloonTip timeout. These values are set by the operating system, and are typically 10 to 30secs. I haven't found a way to change these values. Re: your problem, try the following. As you are invalidating the BalloonTip every time you call a new ShowBalloonTip method, the BalloonTipClosed method is getting called without the help of the user. Therefore, by employing a boolean to tell your program when the BalloonTip is being updated, it can distinguish between a user clicking the close button and the routine update of the time. Also, you might want to disable the Timer rather than just changing a flag when the user clicks the close button so that you're not using up memory with a timer not executing any code. Hope this helps ;)

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  Public Class BalloonTipTime

  Private startTime As Date

  Private Invalidated As Boolean

  ---

  Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick

  Dim timeSpent As TimeSpan = DateTime.Now - startTime

  Dim toopTipText As String = timeSpent.Hours & ":" & timeSpent.Minutes & ":" & timeSpent.Seconds

  'Let your program know it's about to update the BalloonTip

  Invalidated = True

  NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(500, "Yout Status", toopTipText, ToolTipIcon.None)

  End Sub

  ---

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

  startTime = DateTime.Now

  End Sub

  ---

  Private Sub NotifyIcon1_BalloonTipClosed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipClosed

  If Invalid = False Then 'This method wasn't called by updating the BalloonTip

  Timer1.Enabled = False

  End If

  Invalid = False 'Finished updating the BalloonTip

  End Sub

  ---

  End Class

  
  

• Matthew_M81

  I found that setting the notifyIcon.Visible = false and then notifyIcon.Visible = true  forces the bubble to disappear.  It's a kludge but it works. 

  private Sub ForceBubbleToDisappear()
    notifyIcon1.Visible = false
     notifyIcon1.Visible = true
  End Sub

   

  
  
  

• TonyV

  thank you for your reply. I will give a try on your method later.
  
  

• GanjaDoc

  yeah, I find the same problem yesterday.
  
  the timeout value may only means the balloon's timeout time, not the time it shows.
  
  also I got another problem:
  
  I used the timer and set its Interval property to 1000 so that I can keep the balloontip text goes like a clock. I used the code below and it works:
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  private void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
  if (!isClicked)
  {
  TimeSpan timeSpent = DateTime.Now - startTime;
  string toopTipText = timeSpent.Hours + ":" + timeSpent.Minutes + ":" + timeSpent.Seconds;
  notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(500, "Yout Status", toopTipText, ToolTipIcon.None);
  }
  }
  
  private void notifyIcon_BalloonTipClosed(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
  isClicked = false;
  }
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  the problem is: when the user closes the balloontip manually, the balloontip still shows at the next second! this is because the BalloonTipClosed event is invoked every second. so how do I distinguish the manual close from the automatical close
  
  
  sorry for putting my issue here, I really hope someone can help me :)
  
  
• BalloonTip