Taskbar Icon Control for Windows 2000 Version 2.0

Category:

Windows 2000/XP

Type:

Controls

Difficulty:

Advanced

Author:

Nathan Moschkin

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6

More information:

Takes advantage of some of the new features in Windows 2000 for balloon tool tips with three properties on the palette: BalloonIcon, BalloonText, BalloonTitle.

The control is backward compatible with previous versions of windows, only difference is that the 'balloon' properties will be disregarded. Call ShowBalloon to show the tooltip; default of 30000 ms timeout.

To get your icon into the system tray, just set the icon property, e.g.,

Set Notifyctrl1.icon = me.icon

Other features are well documented in the code's comments

NOTE: Version 2.0 added to the site on 03/07/00, with a sample client project and project group.

Instructions: Click the link below to download the code. Select 'Save' from the IE popup dialog. Once downloaded, open the .zip file from your local drive using WinZip or a comparable program to view the contents.

Download w2knotifyicon.zip