System Tray Time Interval Notify

Shoot2ill

Hello all. I am brand spanking new to this forum, and would just like to start out by requesting a program to be made that would assist my fellow employees and I at our Academic Computing Help Desk at the University of South Florida. I am a Computer Engineering major and was looking for some detailed advice/assistance on how to design a non-obtrusive program that would reside in the system tray. Program duties: -starts with Windows -resides in System Tray -displays a balloon notification with customizable text -pop-up balloon display at 15 minute intervals (i.e. 12:15, 12:30, 12:45, 1:00...etc.) We use an incident reporting program called RightNow that refreshes incidents every 15 minutes. I am SO tired of having to look at the system tray clock every split-second to see whether or not I need to refresh RightNow. Please feel free to e-mail me @ Shoot2ill@aim.com with any feedback. Also, if this is not the correct board to be posting requests like this, please let me know where I should go. Thanks! :-D

Dave Sexton

What are you offering to pay me? Bear in mind that this ain't Rent-A-Coder[^].

Shoot2ill

$30? I really have no idea what the going rate is.

Dave Sexton

Make it $50 & you got a deal. Will meet specs in OP. :)

Shoot2ill

Nah I don't want it that bad, lol. But thanks for the offer.

Tirthadip

I dont know what is the language you are using to write your application.... I can try to help you in this regard if u opt to use VB.Net... 1.To make reside your app in System tray you have a control NotifyIcon in the control box of vb.net. Declare a NotifyIcon like this Private myNotifyIcon As NotifyIcon Start your application from a Main() Module. create a NotifyIcon at runtime. myNotifyIcon = New NotifyIcon myNotifyIcon.Icon = New Icon("YourIcon.ico") myNotifyIcon.Visible = True 2.Declare a Timer control Private WithEvents myTimer As Timers.Timer 3.Set up the property of that timer control myTimer = New Timers.Timer With myTimer .AutoReset = True .Interval = 1000 .Start() End With In your case the Interval property should be adjusted like your requirement. 4.In the Elapsed event of your timer write code to pop-up the message... Public Sub myTimer_Elapsed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs) Handles myTimer.Elapsed Msgbox("HELLO WORLD") End Sub 5.To make your application start with Windows you have to create a shortcut of your application's .exe file to the StartUp folder of the computer where the application will run If you set the timer interval for 15 minutes,it will show you the message in every 15 minutes.... For Ballon display please consult with Google......

Tirtha Miles to go before I sleep