raise events

[Magiaus]

Is it possible to raise events in a class from a nested class within it?

I haven't started this yet but what I am doing is making a code only NotifyIcon. In other words it can be used with out a form. To do that I have to have an internal window to provide a handle and to catch messages. What I tried first was just inheriting the System.Windows.Forms.Native window but I don't want the class to expose all the NativeWindow members because well a tray icon doesn't need to create a window or anything like that it should all be hidden. So what I am thinking is make a imple nested class that is a window class with a WindowProc and raise the needed events for the tray class from inside the window class. I just don't know how to do it.

I am also adding Balloon tips for supported os because ms always jips us some how....

I am considering using c++ but I come to the same basic problem....

[Edneeis]

You can already do this with the .NET NotifyIcon object.

Module Module1
 
    Public Sub test(ByVal v As Boolean)
        Static ni As NotifyIcon
        If ni Is Nothing Then ni = New NotifyIcon
        ni.Text = "Test"
        ni.Icon = System.Drawing.Icon.FromHandle(CType(Image.FromFile("E:\Code\NET\Tracker\Resources\del16.ico"), System.Drawing.Bitmap).GetHicon())
        ni.Visible = v
    End Sub
 
End Module
 
'syntax
Module1.test(True)

[Magiaus]

okay. I know I tried doing that. I'll just have to try it again. It gave me an error about cannot create without a form.

[Magiaus]

your right it works fine. I wonder why I couldn't get it to work the first time i tried it..... well now i just need to build the context menu and set it up...

Module mMain
    Public Sub Main()
        Dim I As Integer = 0
        TrayIcon(True)
        For I = 0 To 500
            'tick
        Next
        TrayIcon(False)
    End Sub
 
    Public Sub TrayIcon(ByVal ShowIcon As Boolean)
        Dim ni As System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon
        If ni Is Nothing Then ni = New System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon()
        ni.Icon = System.Drawing.Icon.FromHandle(CType(System.Drawing.Image.FromFile("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Graphics\Icons\Misc\MISC03.ICO"), System.Drawing.Bitmap).GetHicon())
        ni.Visible = ShowIcon
    End Sub
End Module