PopUp Notifications library.

[taximania]

I'm just glad to bring Agraham's work to a 'noticable position'
@Agraham

Here's a taster of the next lesson, I know you hate HTML

noti.Text="<table width 100%><tr><td><font color=red></font> <a href=" & Chr(34) & "On" & Chr(34) & "><img src=" & "file:///on.bmp" & "/></a></td><td><font color=red></font> <a href=" & Chr(34) & "Off" & Chr(34) & "><img src=" & "file:///on.bmp" & "/></a> </td></tr><tr><td><a href=" & Chr(34) & "Grin" & Chr(34) & "><img src=" & "file:///on.bmp" & "/></a> </td><td><a href=" & Chr(34) & "Sq" & Chr(34) & "><img src=" & "file:///on.bmp" & "/></a></td></tr>"

4 images, 4 different responses.

[Zenerdiode]

Have I seen this somewhere before...(?)

I have two devices I've been testing this on:

HP iPaq hx4700 WM2003SE
HP iPaq hx2190b WM5.0

Both devices have a 'Notification LED'. With WM2003SE, the balloon is like the speech bubble as attached. You have got to use the .dispose method in Form1_Close - or the icon will remain on the taskbar. You also have to use the .Visible=false property, otherwise the Notification LED will flash forever.
The HTML text formatting (size and colour) works on WM2003SE, however, I can't get the images to work.

Everything works as expected on WM5.0

[agraham]

Originally Posted by Zenerdiode

Have I seen this somewhere before...(?)

Yes, dzts' NotifyIcon and my ControlsExDevice libraries.

on WM2003SE, however, I can't get the images to work.

They don't. I have found MSDN documentation to that effect. What I haven't found is documentation that images work in WM5.0 and later, although they obviously do. Must be a deliberate enhancement on WM5.0 - there was really no reason for them not to work under WM2003 as the HTML is rendered by the Pocket IE engine - may be it was a bug or an oversight that they documented rather than fixed.

[schimanski]

I can use the PopUp-Lib in my own application, but which one I have to use? Balloon or PopUp2?????
The new-method from the PopUp2 is the best, because it is only one line and it is easy to make a PopUp on device and the same msgBox for the desktop. But i don't want the speech-bubble in the tasbar and there is no way to set the NotificationLED off.

With the balloon-lib, i have to init one object for each message?????

[taximania]

PopUp and PopUp2 don't let you add your own Icon,
Balloon does, and has the ability to respond to feedback.
A clone of Agraham's controlsexdevice.dll

Try this,
after bal.visible=true

For a = 1 To bal.InitialDuration
Sleep(1000)
DoEvents
Next 
bal.Visible=False
'bal.dispose  for PopUp2

This halts the process for the time the bubble is visible then clears it,
but allows responses to be handled (with balloon.dll).

My WM2003SE devices screen is broke, so I can't test code with it,
As my signature says, I'm using a WM6 device.

[schimanski]

Hello!

Thanks, Taxmania for your samplecode. I use the balloon.dll in my application.

I use a device with Windows Mobile 6, but I'am not able to show an icon in the popup. I have used your sample in html:

PHP Code:

4: You 'CAN' display images and get a notification.Response from it 
notification.Text="Click the picture <a href=" & Chr(34) & "img" & Chr(34) 
& "><img src=" & "file:///grin.bmp" & "/></a>" 


I only get an emty picture in the bubble. Is there another way than in html?

[taximania]

Is the image in the 'root directory of your device', I couldn't get an image
to show from any other place or directory ?

[schimanski]

Oh, sorry...

I've got the icon in the application-directory. Now it works...

[taximania]

Originally Posted by schimanski

Oh, sorry...

I've got the icon in the application-directory. Now it works...

Good