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ADSS Tray Popup Window

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Allows to display information popup window above tray area.

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Introduction

Tray popup is a free .NET component to display information window above tray area. It works almost like standard windows 2k/xp balloons, but have more impressive look, place for icon and title. Also information window have customizable gradient background and level of transparency.

How to use

The control is easy to use. Just add it to a form in design mode. After that you can setup properties:

  • Width and Height of information window
  • Bottom and Top color of gradient background, you can use the same colors to make solid background
  • Define opacity (0-100)
  • Select Font and text Color
  • Select Icon for window, information system icon by default
  • Setup display duration (in seconds)

After that you can call method

<FONT 
size=2>ShowWindow(</FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>string</FONT><FONT size=2> 
messageToShow, </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>string</FONT><FONT size=2> 
messageTitle)</FONT>

<FONT size=2>
<P><BR><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000>And that's all! Pretty information 
window appears!</FONT></P></FONT>

Copyright

The library presented in this article is freeware software.

Additional Information

Any additional information on Tray Popup as well as its latest versions can be obtained at http://adss.com.ua/ 

License

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