information bubbles
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In Windows XP applications (especially MS Office), sometimes instead of spitting out an annoying message box at you, the application just shows a yellow bubble with an informational warning in it that doesn't prevent you from doing what you are doing and doesn't require you to press any buttons (the bubble is like the one that says "Windows updates are ready to install" in System Tasks), it automatically fades after a few seconds. Since I've seen it so often in Windows XP, I was just wondering if there was an easy way to tell windows to make one of those with desired text. By an easy way I mean something as easy as telling windows to make a message box? Thanks.
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In Windows XP applications (especially MS Office), sometimes instead of spitting out an annoying message box at you, the application just shows a yellow bubble with an informational warning in it that doesn't prevent you from doing what you are doing and doesn't require you to press any buttons (the bubble is like the one that says "Windows updates are ready to install" in System Tasks), it automatically fades after a few seconds. Since I've seen it so often in Windows XP, I was just wondering if there was an easy way to tell windows to make one of those with desired text. By an easy way I mean something as easy as telling windows to make a message box? Thanks.
Anonymous wrote: a yellow bubble with an informational warning in it Also known as a tool tip control. There are plenty of MSDN examples that you can search for.
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In Windows XP applications (especially MS Office), sometimes instead of spitting out an annoying message box at you, the application just shows a yellow bubble with an informational warning in it that doesn't prevent you from doing what you are doing and doesn't require you to press any buttons (the bubble is like the one that says "Windows updates are ready to install" in System Tasks), it automatically fades after a few seconds. Since I've seen it so often in Windows XP, I was just wondering if there was an easy way to tell windows to make one of those with desired text. By an easy way I mean something as easy as telling windows to make a message box? Thanks.
Check out EM_SHOWBALLOONTIP - it's easy to use.
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In Windows XP applications (especially MS Office), sometimes instead of spitting out an annoying message box at you, the application just shows a yellow bubble with an informational warning in it that doesn't prevent you from doing what you are doing and doesn't require you to press any buttons (the bubble is like the one that says "Windows updates are ready to install" in System Tasks), it automatically fades after a few seconds. Since I've seen it so often in Windows XP, I was just wondering if there was an easy way to tell windows to make one of those with desired text. By an easy way I mean something as easy as telling windows to make a message box? Thanks.
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