I've seen a few Windows 7 applications popping up around the web that take advantage of the new task bar functionality. However, some of these applications are treating the task bar like the notification area. There is no foreground window. All interaction is done through the task bar button (with overlays, progress bars, jump lists, etc...
Regarding Notification Area recommendations by Microsoft, I'm looking for ideas or a Delphi component to implement Notification Area Flyouts. The first "natural" idea is to use a standard Delphi form, but I'm facing two issues with it: I can't get the form border behavior using the standard "BorderStyle" property. Tried to "mimic" ...
I'd like to display a little popup window next to the notification area. It's similar to what Outlook/Skype/Live! Messenger/etc does when it displays the notification about a new message. In my case it will have some input controls (textbox, datetimepicker, buttons...) so a simple bubble won't do. The trick is doing this correctly when ...
I want to show a winform in the very right down corner just above the system tray, How do I do that? Here is my code: public static void Notify() { Rectangle workingArea = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea; Form fm = new Form(); fm.ClientSize = new Size(200, 200); int left = workingArea.Width - fm.Width; ...
What I want to do is check if my application has focus because if it is not then I will popup an Alert Window just over the Notification Area to display some message to the end user. ...