Random, but im a newb so bear with me please

[bakeacake]

Ok, just wondering if anyone knows or can guess how msn messenger does its popups? the lil ones that come from systray. Is this just a case of knowing what api to call or is it really complicated?

Sorry about randomness, i'm just curious

[dsouza123]

If you mean the balloon tip that shows up if you rest the mouse pointer on a icon in the system tray,
then the MASM32 package has included an example program with source  TRAYICON.ASM 
which is Iczelion's Win32 Assembly Tutorial 23.

[Jeff]

i think he means the popup messages that MSN (and AIM) show over the notification icons that usually say that a buddy logs in.

"buddyname has just logged in"

[bakeacake]

yup, jeff got it spot on...soo any idea how to do something similar?

[Tedd]

You'll have to do it yourself :P
A simple (no frills) way would be to make a WS_POPUP window, and set its position to just below the bottom of the screen, and then move it up the screen on a timer until it's all visible. If you want to make it pretty, then you'll have to take care of drawing it all yourself, but the main 'popup' effect is fairly straightforward.

[Mark_Larson]

  Were you asking how to send those messages to other people's systems?

[bakeacake]

errr nope, but if you know how to that does sound interesting, care to share?

[hutch--]

bakeacake ,

That response is one short of having the topic closed, no-one askes for hacking information in this forum so please leave this type of stuff alone here.

[chemicalNova]

bakeacake ,

That response is one short of having the topic closed, no-one askes for hacking information in this forum so please leave this type of stuff alone here.

I think Mark_Larson meant sending messages to other people's systems, through the MSN service hutch. Kinda like making you're own Messenger program, using the MSN protocol. I'm sure theres libraries for MASM, as there are libraries for this in Visual Basic.

chem

[hutch--]

Could be but when the member tells us what he had in mind, it will be a lot easier to decide.

[bakeacake]

i wasnt asking about hacking at all?! well i didnt think i was anyway? i just wanted to do a similar thing to the msn popups as a way of my program displaying information. Sorry if i've caused hassle, i really didnt mean to.

[hutch--]

No problem, thanks for letting us know what you had in mind. We have to be a bit fast on the uptake otherwise some guys will try out stuff that should not be in here.

[Tedd]

Fresh from the oven.. :toothy

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[roticv]

That's sweet  :U

[Phil]

Nice ... and up you are! :wink