Changing text of Notify icon (of System tray application) at runtime

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Hi All,

I have a requirement in my project regarding system tray application. My application has many files in queue which has to be copied on to another location. When ever i move my mouse over the notify icon, i need to show the below details:

App Name
Failed:
Succeeded:
In Progress:

Can anyone help me in acheving this using C#?

Thanks and Regards,
YKK Reddy

Posted 22-Nov-11 7:25am

YKK Reddy

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Nov-11 14:56pm

Why on the mouse event?
You should better notify the status as soon as it changed. Don't forget, it's called "notify icon".
--SA

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Solution 1

In your main application, whenever the state changes and you need to make it available to the user, then simply update the Text property of the notify icon, then when the user moves over the icon is the task tray then the tooltip with the text will be displayed. This is consistent behaviour with windows applications and therefore does not annoy the user.

You could also change the icon on a state change.

C#

notifyIcon1.Text = "The New State";
notifyIcon1.Icon = .........; //some icon

Posted 22-Nov-11 9:03am

DaveAuld

Updated 22-Nov-11 9:05am

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YKK Reddy · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-28T07:21:00

Solution 2

Ihave used Win32 NotifyIcon structure whichcan hold 128 characters.

Please refer to the mentioned link.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/579665/how-can-i-show-a-systray-tooltip-longer-than-63-chars[^]

Posted 28-Nov-11 7:21am

YKK Reddy