Problem with balloon tips

Question

HI,

I create balloon tips all over our application. My problem is that all of the balloon tips stay on the task-bar and needs to be hovered over for them to disappear.

        public static bool SetBalloonTip(string balloonTipTitle, string balloonTipText, ToolTipIcon balloonTipIcon)
    {
        bool result = false;
        NotifyIcon notifyIcon;

        try
        {
            notifyIcon = new NotifyIcon();

            notifyIcon.Icon = SystemIcons.Information;
            notifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle = balloonTipTitle;
            notifyIcon.BalloonTipText = balloonTipText;
            notifyIcon.BalloonTipIcon = balloonTipIcon;

            notifyIcon.Visible = true;
            notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(30000);

            result = true;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {

            throw;
        }

        return result;
    }

My question is, how do i make the notify icon disappear after it has been shown?

Answer 1

Found a solution:

first:

private static System.ComponentModel.IContainer components;

Second:

public static bool SetBalloonTip(string balloonTipTitle, string balloonTipText, ToolTipIcon balloonTipIcon)
    {
        bool result = false;
        NotifyIcon notifyIcon;

        try
        {
            if (components == null)
            {
                components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
            }

            notifyIcon = new NotifyIcon(components);

            notifyIcon.Icon = SystemIcons.Information;
            notifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle = balloonTipTitle;
            notifyIcon.BalloonTipText = balloonTipText;
            notifyIcon.BalloonTipIcon = balloonTipIcon;

            notifyIcon.Visible = true;
            notifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(30000);

            result = true;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {

            throw;
        }

        return result;
    }

Third:

        public static void DisposeOfBallonTips(bool disposing)
    {
        try
        {
            // Clean up any components being used.
            if (disposing)
            {
                if (components != null)
                {
                    components.Dispose();
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {

            throw;
        }
    }

Calling DisposeOfBallonTips when i want to clean up all NotifyIcons.