BalloonHint in Trayicons ?

[Fred vS]

Hello folks
In the component TrayIcon, they are BalloonHint, BalloonTimeout, Balloonflag and BalloonTitle properties.
But i don not understand how to use it.
And what is the difference with Hint ?
Thanks

PS: The transparency of icons in TrayIcon do not work with Qt, is there a plan to do it work ? (but works perfectly for GTK2 and Windows.)

[Laksen]

When you want to show a balloon hint you call the ShowBalloonHint procedure of the trayicon

[Fred vS]

@ Laksen : Thanks, i gonna try that...

About the transparency of icons with Qt, do you have any idea how to correct it ?

[CM630]

A few years later:
BalloonHint works only on Windows ( I added some info in https://wiki.freepascal.org/How_to_use_a_TrayIcon#Methods).
But the balloon is titled “Microsoft.Explorer.Notification {some number...”. Is there a way to change it?

[CM630]

And here is what I found this morning (in Windows 11):
In the code below if TrayIcon.Show; is commented, I get a custom balloon, probably a TPopupNotifier.
But if it is not commented, the native Windows notification balloon is shown. And the contents of the balloon are displayed in the Notification List of the Windows.
Is this the expected behaviour?

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1. procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
2. var
3.   TrayIcon : TTrayIcon;
4. begin
5.   TrayIcon := TTrayIcon.Create(Self);
6.   TrayIcon.BalloonTitle := 'BalloonTitle';
7.   TrayIcon.BalloonHint := 'BalloonHint';
8.   TrayIcon.BalloonFlags := bfWarning;
9. //  TrayIcon.Show;
10.   TrayIcon.ShowBalloonHint;
11. //  TrayIcon.Free;
12. end;    

I have not tried it on Linux yet.