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Showing Tooltips/Icons for Status Bar Panes
Class to show tooltips and icons for individual panes and to allow changing of text and background color of individual panes. (The article, demo project, and source code were updated.)
Showing progress bar in a status bar pane
Showing progress bar in a status bar pane
MSN Messenger Type Task Bar Message Box
[Update]This article shows you the source code about making a pop up message window like MSN Messenger.
Tutorial - Write Icon in the Taskbar Window
This simple program code show how to write or remove an icon from the window taskbar and add a tool tip text. It also show how you can define a user message for trap events generate with mouse action (click on the icon).
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