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Does anyone know of any C++ Libraries which I can easily integrate in a project to allow me to show MSN Messenger/Outlook/Growl style toast popups?

Tried having a look and found lots of Visual Basic controls etc but nothing for C++ so far.

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How about... growl for windows? :]

http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/

Lee
That would work fine, but I wanted to have it self contained without needed Growl as a dependency.
Adam Dempsey
Fair enough, makes life simpler! :]
Lee
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You might wanna a look at Customizable Alert Window by Marius Bancila.

TuxGeek
That looks perfect for what I need, thanks :-)
Adam Dempsey
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The VS 2008 MFC has a toast dialog that looks just like outlook toast. The disadvantage is that you have to have MFC as the main framework in you app - might not be worth it just for the toasts.

Create a sample MFC project in Visual Studio and see if it is at all suitable.

Igor Zevaka