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Mike Collins wrote:

>I've got a system tray *application* which displays balloon tips in response 
>to certain events.  I've no problem with this aspect but now I want to 
>display my own x16 icon in the actual balloon tip.

There is this .net feature:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.notifyicon.balloontipicon(VS.80).aspx
http://tinyurl.com/3dwdll

"Mike Collins" <its@TheBottomOfThePost> wrote in message 
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> I've got a system tray *application* which displays balloon tips in
> response to certain events.  I've no problem with this aspect but
> now I want to display my own x16 icon in the actual balloon tip.

Did you read the documentation for NOTIFYICONDATA yet?  It tells you exactly 
how to do that:

    NOTIFYICONDATA Structure
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773352(VS.85).aspx

In a nutshell, on XP SP2 and later, you can set the uFlags member to 
NIF_INFO to enable a balloon tooltip, set the dwInfoFlags member to 
NIIF_USER to specify a custom icon, and then put your custom icon into the 
hIcon member.  On Vista and later, there is a new hBalloonIcon member that 
you can use instead of the hIcon member.


Gambit 

Thanks for the reply - weird results though.  I've implimentated what has 
been suggested but whist i get the balloon icon changed, it does not 
corrispond to the icon that i specify.  My code below should display the 
applciations default icon but actually, i get the wi-fi connection icon 
being displayed - which has nothing to do with my application.  My code 
looks like this

         nid.uFlags      = NIF_INFO;       // tried with and without this...
         nid.dwInfoFlags = NIIF_USER;  // couldn't find a def for this so 
defined it as 4
         HICON hIcon = (HICON)::LoadImage(HInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(101), 
IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR);
         nid.hIcon  = hIcon;
         bRtn = (bool)Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, &nid);
         ::DestroyIcon(hIcon);

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Mike


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
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>
> "Mike Collins" <its@TheBottomOfThePost> wrote in message 
> news:47c7e508@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> I've got a system tray *application* which displays balloon tips in
>> response to certain events.  I've no problem with this aspect but
>> now I want to display my own x16 icon in the actual balloon tip.
>

Please ignore last post - got it working in the end.

The documentation is not as clear as it should be.  If you specify NIIF_USER 
for the Info Flag, you must also specify NIF_INFO *AND* NIF_ICON for the 
standard flags i.e.

nid.uFlags      = NIF_INFO | NIF_ICON;
nid.dwInfoFlags = NIIF_USER;
 HICON hIcon = (HICON)::LoadImage(HInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(101), 
IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR);
nid.hIcon  = hIcon;
bRtn = (bool)Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, &nid);
::DestroyIcon(hIcon);


Mike