ControlsExDevice library

[mjcoon]

Originally Posted by agraham

Notification puts an icon on the bar at the top of the screen. NotifyIcon puts an icon on a bar at the bottom, only visible on the Today screen.

Thanks, Andrew, that was exactly what I needed to know! Now I can see the demo working on the emulator and device, and realise that is not what I want; that must be Notification.

Best wishes, Mike.

[mjcoon]

Werrl, I'm still struggling (but now with Notification in ControlsEx Device, on the device emulator - WM5.0).

If I set NotificationObj.Visible = True in my App_Start, in addition to FormLib.MinimizeBox = True (which I have been using all along), I briefly see my 16x16 icon in the Title bar but it disappears along with the file selection dialogue which is the first thing that the app presents. The "X" in the top right corner gets replaced by "OK" just as if I hadn't done FormLib.MinimizeBox = True. This is the only thing the app now responds to; it does close down nicely, just when it shouldn't!

On the other hand if I don't set NotificationObj.Visible = True but omit this or set False, the program behaves just as if I had never set out to do Notification. I put NotificationObj.Visible = True in the Form_Close event because the Help for this event says it is triggered by form hide as well as form close, but perhaps this does not apply to the main form. Without such a trigger I am never going to display the icon to resurect my app to foreground, which is all I am trying to do!

Mike.

[agraham]

Notification is not really intended for that sort of use. Have you read the text at the top of the Notification topic in the help? It tells you that if you set InitialDuration to 0 then the icon stays visible. However when you press it the balloon will still show which may not be what you want

[mjcoon]

Originally Posted by agraham

Notification is not really intended for that sort of use. Have you read the text at the top of the Notification topic in the help? It tells you that if you set InitialDuration to 0 then the icon stays visible. However when you press it the balloon will still show which may not be what you want

Yes, I read that and it is not ideal. It is not what happens with the dictionary product that I would like to emulate (Dictionary for Palm OS and Windows Mobile. RoadLingua by AbsoluteWord: Dictionaries, Atlases, Encyclopedias). I am setting NotificationObj.InitialDuration = 0. I have put "Resuming visibility..." as NotificationObj.Text, which is OK, especially if the balloon removes itself without requiring acknowledgement.

But it would be nice to obtain at least a non-ideal behaviour instead of a totally useless one! Is there an intentional or even known accidental interplay between FormLib.MinimizeBox = True and NotificationObj.Visible = True?

Mike.

[agraham]

Originally Posted by mjcoon

Is there ...

I've no idea, as I said Notification is not intended for such use. Appplications that behave as you want presumably use a native code facility that is not exposed to .NET to place icons on the title bar but as I know little about such things on Windows Mobile I can't help.

[mjcoon]

OK, "so near and yet so far"! Thanks for thinking about it, anyway.

Cheers, Mike.

[RichardW]

In version 1.8 of ControlsExDeviceDummy.cs and ControlsExDevice.cs there is a typo.

In both pgms you will find the statement:

public int Left
{ get { return listv.Left; } set { listv.Left = Left; } }

which I believe you meant to write

public int Left
{ get { return listv.Left; } set { listv.Left = value; } }

In other words you cannot update the value of left once the listview is created.
I have made this change on my PC and the compiled pgms now let me update left.

[agraham]

Thanks for finding it.

[corwin42]

Hello,

Using the NotifyIcon object I want to set a dynamic icon for my application in the today screen tray bar.

With NotifyIcon.Icon I can set a new Icon but how do I create a .Net Icon object dynamically? I need to draw an Icon because I want to display something like a mini chart in the icon. Can I access and modify the Bitmap of an Icon?

Is this possible somehow with B4PPC?

[agraham]

Version 1.9 now posted. This fixes a typo that wrongly assigned the Left property to the Width porperty in Listview, NativeImage, DateTimePicker and Splitter. NativeImage NativeLeft and NativeTop were unavailable in the desktop version - now they are visible.