Starting the 5.0 version of Microsoft ® Internet Explorer the cartoon-style tips are available. They are known as Balloon ToolTip:

Fig 1. Balloon ToolTip example

Shell+ allows you to use Balloon ToolTips in your application. Place TSxTrayIcon on the main form of your application. Then add ShowInfo and/or ShowCustomInfo method calls to show icon and ToolTip balloon. These two methods are considered below.

The ShowInfo method has no parameters. It uses the following component properties:

• InfoFlags - indicates what icon to be shown in the left top corner of the balloon. Several predefined values are available - niifError, niifInfo, niifNone and niifWarning.
• InfoText - this property contains the text to be displayed in the ToolTip.
• InfoTitle - value of this property will be used as a caption of Balloon. ToolTip.

If you wish to supply all these properties in one call then use the second method - ShowCustomInfo:

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin SxTrayIcon1.ShowCustomInfo('The Shell+ Demo','Shell+',niifInfo); end;

To test the example simply run it. Press the button and you will see our ToolTip:

Use links below to download source codes of this example as well as binary files:

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