Show a Balloon notification
You have not actually specified an icon to display in the task bar. Running your code in LINQPad, by simply adding notifyIcon.Icon = SystemIcons.Application
before the call to ShowBalloonTip
I was able to get the tip to be displayed. Also note that you should call Dispose
when you are done with your NotifyIcon
instance.
Matthew identified the issue, but I still struggled to put all the pieces together. So I thought a concise example that works in LINQPad as-is would be helpful (and presumably elsewhere). Just reference the System.Windows.Forms
assembly, and paste this code in.
var notification = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon()
{
Visible = true,
Icon = System.Drawing.SystemIcons.Information,
// optional - BalloonTipIcon = System.Windows.Forms.ToolTipIcon.Info,
// optional - BalloonTipTitle = "My Title",
BalloonTipText = "My long description...",
};
// Display for 5 seconds.
notification.ShowBalloonTip(5000);
// This will let the balloon close after it's 5 second timeout
// for demonstration purposes. Comment this out to see what happens
// when dispose is called while a balloon is still visible.
Thread.Sleep(10000);
// The notification should be disposed when you don't need it anymore,
// but doing so will immediately close the balloon if it's visible.
notification.Dispose();
See the below source code.
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace ShowToolTip
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void btBallonToolTip_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ShowBalloonTip();
this.Hide();
}
private void ShowBalloonTip()
{
Container bpcomponents = new Container();
ContextMenu contextMenu1 = new ContextMenu();
MenuItem runMenu = new MenuItem();
runMenu.Index = 1;
runMenu.Text = "Run...";
runMenu.Click += new EventHandler(runMenu_Click);
MenuItem breakMenu = new MenuItem();
breakMenu.Index = 2;
breakMenu.Text = "-------------";
MenuItem exitMenu = new MenuItem();
exitMenu.Index = 3;
exitMenu.Text = "E&xit";
exitMenu.Click += new EventHandler(exitMenu_Click);
// Initialize contextMenu1
contextMenu1.MenuItems.AddRange(
new System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem[] { runMenu, breakMenu, exitMenu });
// Initialize menuItem1
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(0, 0);
this.Text = "Ballon Tootip Example";
// Create the NotifyIcon.
NotifyIcon notifyIcon = new NotifyIcon(bpcomponents);
// The Icon property sets the icon that will appear
// in the systray for this application.
string iconPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + @"\setup-icon.ico";
notifyIcon.Icon = new Icon(iconPath);
// The ContextMenu property sets the menu that will
// appear when the systray icon is right clicked.
notifyIcon.ContextMenu = contextMenu1;
notifyIcon.Visible = true;
// The Text property sets the text that will be displayed,
// in a tooltip, when the mouse hovers over the systray icon.
notifyIcon.Text = "Morgan Tech Space BallonTip Running...";
notifyIcon.BalloonTipText = "Morgan Tech Space BallonTip Running...";
notifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle = "Morgan Tech Space";
notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(1000);
}
void exitMenu_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Close();
}
void runMenu_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("BallonTip is Running....");
}
}
}