Invalid NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip Behavior

Question

Is it me, or something unpleasant here, about NotifyIcon . No matter what I give to the timeout parameter of the NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip method, it only displays for a certain period of time. Which is around 9 seconds on win7 and wins 8.1 and around 4 sec. on a Windows 2008 r2 server. These are the operating systems I have tried so far.

I tried overloading NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip , but getting the same results.

 //this is only shown for 9 seconds notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(15000); 

and this one

 //this is only shown for 9 seconds too :) notifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(15000, "1 sec", "shown for one sec", ToolTipIcon.Info); 

The msdn says:

The minimum and maximum timeout values ​​are performed by the operating system and are usually 10 and 30 seconds, however this may vary depending on the operating system.

OK, but don't we have a word about this? If this is a given value, why does this timeout parameter exist?

I hope that I am missing something stupid. (I work with .net 4.5)

Answer 1

Thanks to the comment @ γηράσκω δ 'αεί πολλά διδασκόμμ, I was convinced that nothing was missing. And the next task is to create a NotifyBalloon project, so I did it.

Sufferers can check and use it from my public gitHub NotifyBalloon repository.