How to close BalloonTip programmatically?

Question

I have a Tray icon in my application. I show the tip of the balloon for 20 seconds when I load something in the background. But, if the background load is completed earlier, say after 10 seconds, I would like to hide the tip of the cylinder. Currently, the only way to hide the tip of the ball is to click the close icon at the tip of the ball.

Public Tray As NotifyIcon Tray = New NotifyIcon Tray.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Info Tray.BalloonTipText = "Loading" Tray.BalloonTipTitle = "Please Wait" Tray.ShowBalloonTip(20 * 1000) 

Is it possible to hide the tip of the cylinder programmatically until the specified time is reached?

Answer 1

Try the following:

 Tray.Visible = true; 

More details here .

Hope helps!

Answer 2

There are, of course, better ways to do this. "Please wait," feedback is best done with a progress bar or hourglass mouse cursor. You can do this on Win7 + using the Windows API code package by indicating progress on the taskbar.

Anyhoo, you can pop up a balloon by displaying another short timeout or hiding the notification icon.

Answer 3

You can hide the tip of the balloon at any time (visible property).

Note that the icons and balloons are owned and controlled by explorer.exe (the “launcher menu bar”), so if you do not clean it correctly, it will remain there. You need to actively talk about it in order to disappear. Setting a timer for the balloon simply tells the researcher how long to display it. You need to actively send a counter message to hide it earlier.

Answer 4

I personally would have thought it would be easier just to call

 Tray.Show(0); 

Which should make him immediately hide the tray without hiding the tray icon itself ...

Answer 5

At least in current Windows 8.1 using .Net Framework 4 Client Profile,
BallonTip tooltip while keeping System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon notifyIcon1 visible
wanted back to back:

  notifyIcon1.Visible = false; notifyIcon1.Visible = true;