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Baloon tooltip (Score:1)

by mkirank (1219) on 2006.07.24 19:00 (#48964) Journal

Hope this helps.
The newer version of the Win32::Gui.pm [sourceforge.net] has a ShowBalloon method and also you can pass params

-balloon => 0/1 -balloon_tip => STRING -balloon_title => STRING -balloon_icon => STRING -balloon_timeout => NUMBER

As per the docs here [sourceforge.net] # For shell32.dll version 5.0 and later balloon tooltips can be used, # the following options control balloon tooltips. If your version # of shell32.dll does not support balloon tooltips, then these options # are silently ignored:

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- Re:Baloon tooltip (Score:1)
  
  by miyagawa (1653)
  
  Thanks! Does it mean I need to build the new Win32::GUI using its CVS version? I want to include the feature to my software, so that's not an ideal situation. I'd like to poke the author to make a new release and want someone else to build an PPM for it?
  - Re:Baloon tooltip (Score:1)
    
    by mkirank (1219)
    
    asking the author for a new release is probably the best idea.
- Re:Baloon tooltip (Score:1)
  
  by gdm (4750)
  
  Dave Roth wrote an article called "How to Script In-Your-Face Alerts" that might provide you with the info you are looking for.
  
  http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/45195/45195.html [windowsitpro.com]

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