[RESOLVED] [2005] Attaching a dynamic tooltip to a NotifyIcon

[mightor]

After spending some time Googling and MSDNing, I must say I have been unable to find pointers towards attaching a dynamic tooltip to a NotifyIcon instance.
The following code:

toolTip1.SetToolTip(Me.NotifyIcon_RealmTray, "Foobaz!")

Generates this error:
Error 1 Value of type 'System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon' cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.Forms.Control'. D:\Documents and Settings\xander\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\RealmTray\RealmTray\MainForm.vb 136 29 RealmTray

So this is obviously not the way to go. However, what *is* the Right Way (tm) and could someone point me in the general direction, please?

Basically I want to have a nice little tooltip to popup whenever a user hovers over the system tray icon which contains some info regarding the status of one or more servers that are being monitored.

Thanks in advance,
Mightor

[18experience]

How about

Me.NotifyIcon_RealmTray.Text = "Foobaz!"

A notifyicon is just there to do that one thing, so it doesn't really need a tooltip... it sort of is one by itself. Anyway, I think that will do it.

[kleinma]

18 is correct. The text property of the notifyicon control will be used as its tooltip automatically.

As an alternative, you can also do something like this

    Private Sub NotifyIcon1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.MouseMove
        NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(5000, "Title", "Hello World", ToolTipIcon.Info)
    End Sub

That gives you a balloon popup instead of just a tooltip, which can be a bit nicer in some situations. (can have a bold title and a predefined system icon in the balloon, versus only text)

[sparrow1]

After spending some time Googling and MSDNing, I must say I have been unable to find pointers towards attaching a dynamic tooltip to a NotifyIcon instance.
The following code:

toolTip1.SetToolTip(Me.NotifyIcon_RealmTray, "Foobaz!")

Generates this error:
Error 1 Value of type 'System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon' cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.Forms.Control'. D:\Documents and Settings\xander\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\RealmTray\RealmTray\MainForm.vb 136 29 RealmTray

So this is obviously not the way to go. However, what *is* the Right Way (tm) and could someone point me in the general direction, please?

Basically I want to have a nice little tooltip to popup whenever a user hovers over the system tray icon which contains some info regarding the status of one or more servers that are being monitored.

Thanks in advance,
Mightor

Hi,

You can try this:

  ' The Text property sets the text that will be displayed,
        ' in a tooltip, when the mouse hovers over the systray icon.
        notifyIcon1.Text = "Form1 (NotifyIcon example)"
        notifyIcon1.Visible = True

Hope it helps,

sparrow1

[mightor]

Thanks for all the quick responses. I've opted for the nice Balloon tip kleinma suggested. The Me.NotifyIcon_RealmTray.Text = "Foobaz!" never worked for me which is why I posted. Also it would be kind of tricky to put more than a single line of text in there and all that stuff.
There isn't a way to disable the "pop" sound, is there?

[kleinma]

No you can't disable the pop sound. It is actually whatever sound is assigned to "System Notification" in Windows.

You can see this in the control panel under the "sounds and audio devices" option, and then the "sounds" tab.

You can't selectively turn it off for just your balloon...


However you mentioned that assigning the text property never worked for you, which is odd, because it should. So you can either live with the system sound, or you can figure out why setting the .text property isn't working for you.

[mightor]

I can live with the pop sound. The extra functionality of the ShowBalloonTip far outweighs any annoyance the sound may cause.

[kleinma]

Sounds good.

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[mightor]

Sounds good.

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Way ahead of you