Tray Item Questions

General
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Hello All,
I would like to create Tray Item Menus and Tray Item notifications. The latter is the harder part for me. How can I create a notification that will appear in the System Tray, then be removed either when the user clicks on it, or it times out. Preferrably, I need this to work in Win, Mac and Linux.

Any advice, direction or samples would really be appreciated!

Thank you,
Tim

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Xojos’ Tray Item Example of TrayItem Class would be a good starting point. I suggest you to check this out first. You will find it in Subfolder “Desktop”/ “TrayItem”. But it only works in Windows and Linux what makes me to extend your question:

What about Top Menubar on Mac OS X, where you also have kinda “TrayIcons” like volume control, WLAN, Bluetooth, Dropbox etc. Wouldn’t it be great to use for this? Or I am missing something?

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You can use the MBS Plugins with NSStatusItemMBS class to get a statusitem on Mac.
For Windows you can use the build in TrayItem class or the WindowsSystemTrayMBS class.

4

TrayItem works fine for Windows and Linux. MacOSLib has the equivalent for the Mac, complete with comprehensive example.

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I use the tray item for menu just fine. But I am looking for other notifcations. I came across this post in the old forum . I think the proper name for this is “balloon” or notification window. The Xojo TrayItem class, does not appear to support this - at least the documentation does not mention it specifically.

Does anyone know if or how to use the TrayItem class to create a balloon or notification window at the system tray?
Thank you,
Tim

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Thanks again for the replies everyone!

I think I have something working, at adequately. I added a form, and use the Tray Item to launch the form when necessary

   frmNotice.Left = screen(0).AvailableWidth - frmNotice.Width
    frmNotice.Top = screen(0).AvailableHeight - frmNotice.height
    frmNotice.Visible = True
    
    frmNotice.tmrVisible.Enabled = True
    frmNotice.tmrVisible.Mode = Timer.ModeSingle
    frmNotice.tmrVisible.Period = 5000  //5 Seconds

Not as beautiful as I would have liked, but perhaps with some more fiddling, I can create something better.

Tim

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MBS Plugin has try item with balloons…

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Thanks Christian,
I am going to take a look at that plugin. I believe I have it already too…
Tim