Hi folks,
First of all, a big THANK YOU for the creation of Gambas! It has
allowed us to port legacy VB code to linux and get several of our users
off the Windows platform.
I've searched everywhere for this, and seen several requests, but no
satisfactory answer.
Is there any way to implement a Balloon message that can be attached to
a tray icon? This is common functionality that is seen in many
applications. Unfortunately, TrayIcons are "Classes", not "Controls",
so when you call
Balloon.Info("Hello World", myTrayIcon)
... you get the error "Expected 'Control', got 'TrayIcon'".
I've found this question in mailing lists going back to 2008, but no
answer.
My workaround is to render a small form in the lower right hand corner
of the screen, put a tiny label on the tiny form, and have that label be
the Control that the balloon attaches to. A timer then closes the form
after a few seconds.
The problem with that solution is that the newly rendered form steals
focus from whatever application is currently running. So if I'm typing
away in an e-mail, and my miniature balloon form loads, my e-mail client
loses focus.
I'm using gb.qt on Gambas 3.5.0; QT certainly has support for this
(http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/desktop-systray.html), although I'll
admit I know next to nothing about QT programming. But is this a
feature that can be built into the TrayIcon class, perhaps in the form
of TrayIcon.Balloon.Info? Or, is there a way to do that that I'm not
familiar with yet?
Thanks so much!
Michael
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