Task bar Messages ?

[BuilderSpec]

Hi all

You know when in XP etc. when you send a file to the CD drive for burning or you stick a usb cable in the back of your PC and in the task bar a little caption pops up by itself. Does anyone how this is done in Borland builder ?

I want to capture an event that will open a windows style speech thingy on the task bar.

any ideas ?

Regards

builderspec

 

[hansaplast]

My guess is that the popup responds to a Message send by the system. You can capture Messages by writing your own MessageHandler.
These are the steps you'll have to preform:
- Find out which message is send.
- Write your own MessageHandler Which processeses the caputred event (see the topic "message handlers" in the builder help)

Regards,
Hanza

 

[BuilderSpec]

But why would I write a message handler ? that implies that I would know when the event has occurred. An event alreay has occurred at the point I want to "popup" the message. How do I actually "popup" the message ?

 

[hansaplast]

Ehh.. Right.. Didn't played enough attention
Dunno how to popup the messagebox. perhaps the Microsoft developer pages can help you out there.

Regards.

 

[2ffat]

Do you mean something like:

Application->MessageBox("You are attempting to shutdown the program before it has finished processing!", "Untimely Death", MB_OK);

This will display a box with a title of "Untimely Death," a message of "You are attempting to shutdown the program before it has finished processing!," and an OK button.

There are a variety of buttons you can display and you can capture which one the user selects, too.

James P. Cottingham
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[Supernat03]

I would check out the MSDN pages at Microsoft. I don't think Borland has that capability inherently (at least not up to version 6.0). You'll have to call a Microsoft MFC function or something out of an SDK they might have for download.

Chris

 

[BuilderSpec]

supernat thanks..

2ffat .. no that's easy ... I mean the windows style popup that looks like a speech bubble.

 

[hansaplast]

Quote: "All tray icon behavior operates through a single API function, Shell_NotifyIcon. This function takes a struct called NOTIFYICONDATA that contains fields to tell Windows what you want to do."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/11/CQA/default.aspx

Checkout the link at MSDN. Also try to search google with "balloon C++

 

[tid]

Hi,
if you just need something like the yellow ballon that popup in the tray....
goto this link and check this out..the installtion is a little bit tricker but ots worked on builder 5 (i cheked it my self

http://subsimple.com/delphi.asp

have fun...