Need more characters for ToolTip of SysTray Icon

06-01-2012, 03:30 PM

geo1st487

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Need more characters for ToolTip of SysTray Icon

Hi! I use the following code for make a SysTray icon but i have a problem. The text of ToolTip size is only 64 chars length but i need more. I tried to change the szTip As String * 64 to szTip As String * 128 but I get the same result. I have seen many applications which the ToolTip text of SysTray icon has more than 64 chars. How do that?
Thanks

Code:

Public Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib _
"shell32.dll" Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" _
(ByVal dwMessage As Long, lpData As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Long

Public Const NIM_ADD = &H0
Public Const NIM_DELETE = &H2
Public Const NIM_MODIFY = &H1
Public Const NIF_ICON = &H2
Public Const NIF_MESSAGE = &H1
Public Const NIF_TIP = &H4
Public Const WM_MBUTTONDBLCLK = &H209
Public Const WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK = &H203
Public Const WM_LBUTTONDOWN = &H201
Public Const WM_LBUTTONUP = &H202
Public Const WM_MOUSEMOVE = &H200
Public Const WM_RBUTTONDBLCLK = &H206
Public Const WM_RBUTTONDOWN = &H204
Public Const WM_RBUTTONUP = &H205

Public Type NOTIFYICONDATA
    cbSize As Long
    hwnd As Long
    uID As Long
    uFlags As Long
    uCallbackMessage As Long
    hIcon As Long
    szTip As String * 64
End Type

06-01-2012, 04:09 PM

Cerian Knight

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Have you tried breaking the text with vbCrLf?

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06-01-2012, 06:43 PM

hDC_0

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extended tooltip

Have you looked at this Stackoverflow post:
"How can I show a systray tooltip longer than 63 chars?"

06-02-2012, 05:03 AM

geo1st487

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cerian Knight

Have you tried breaking the text with vbCrLf?

I have tried but I get the same result.

06-02-2012, 05:11 AM

geo1st487

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Quote:

Originally Posted by hDC_0

Have you looked at this Stackoverflow post:
"How can I show a systray tooltip longer than 63 chars?"

I have seen the code from Stackoverflow post but is for C#

Microsoft say for the member szTip the below

"A null-terminated string that specifies the text for a standard tooltip. It can have a maximum of 64 characters, including the terminating null character.
For Windows 2000 and later, szTip can have a maximum of 128 characters, including the terminating null character."

The link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

So I have windows vista, how do i make the szTip 128 characters length?
Thanks

06-02-2012, 09:27 AM

Cerian Knight

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Try passing a byte array containing ASCII instead of a string. That should get 128 characters to show.

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