No Balloon Tip

Great ATuin

hi, I want to display a little balloon tip on my tray icon but the balloon just won't appear, although the tray icon is visible. the app is based on MFC and here's the code that doesn't work. it is located in OnInitDialog: ndata.cbSize=sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA); ndata.hWnd = m_hWnd; ndata.uFlags = NIF_ICON | NIF_MESSAGE | NIF_INFO; ndata.uID = IDI_DISABLED; ndata.dwInfoFlags = NIIF_NONE; ndata.hIcon = (HICON) LoadImage(AfxGetApp()->m_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_DISABLED), IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR); ndata.uCallbackMessage = WM_POPUP; ndata.uTimeout = 10000; wcscpy(ndata.szInfoTitle,_T("Test")); wcscpy(ndata.szInfo, _T("Test")); Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &ndata); ndata is of type NOTIFYICONDATA and is a member of my dialog class. any clues what could be wrong with that ? greets -- modified at 4:38 Wednesday 1st February, 2006

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You have to set the version.

ndata.uVersion=NOTIFYICON_VERSION;
Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_SETVERSION, &nData);

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Great ATuin

... no effect. setting the version didn't fix it :(

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Where did you do it. Note: uTimeout and uVersion is wrapped inside a union so you must be careful. Both cannot be used at once.

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Great ATuin

right after ndata.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);

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No you are wrong. First set the icon:

Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &ndata);

Then the set the version:

ndata.uVersion = NOTIFYICON_VERSION;
Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_SETVERSION, &ndata);

The reason being that you cannot use both uVersion and uTimeout together since they are wrapped inside a union.

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The code that you gave is working here, with the following modifications... _tcscpy(ndata.szInfoTitle,_T("Test")); _tcscpy(ndata.szInfo, _T("Test"));

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Great ATuin

ok here's my new code: ZeroMemory(&ndata, sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA)); ndata.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA); ndata.hWnd = m_hWnd; ndata.uFlags = NIF_ICON | NIF_MESSAGE; ndata.uID = IDI_DISABLED; ndata.uCallbackMessage = WM_POPUP; ndata.hIcon = (HICON) LoadImage(AfxGetApp()->m_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_DISABLED), IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR); Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &ndata); ndata.uVersion = NOTIFYICON_VERSION; Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_SETVERSION, &ndata); ndata.uTimeout = 10000; ndata.uFlags |= NIF_INFO; _tcscpy(ndata.szInfoTitle,_T("Test")); _tcscpy(ndata.szInfo, _T("Test")); Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, &ndata); but still no balloon :wtf:

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You don't need to modify anything .... Yeah Because szInfo is TCHAR and szInfoTitle is also TCHAR so you must use _tcscpy to copy strings... You can use the original code with the modifications that I told. i.e. Replace wcscpy with _tcscpy

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I did set the IE version to 0x0500

#define _WIN32_IE 0x0500

ndata.cbSize=sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
ndata.hWnd = m_hWnd;
ndata.uFlags = NIF_ICON | NIF_MESSAGE | NIF_INFO;
ndata.uID = 123;
ndata.dwInfoFlags = NIIF_ERROR;

ndata.hIcon = (HICON) LoadImage(AfxGetApp()->m_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MAINFRAME), IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR); 

ndata.uCallbackMessage = 0;
ndata.uTimeout = 10000;

_tcscpy(ndata.szInfoTitle,_T("Test"));
_tcscpy(ndata.szInfo, _T("Test")); 

Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, &ndata);

This works...

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Great ATuin

yesss. that's it. i forgot the #define. ok man thank you! i appreciate your efforts!