Windows XP Balloon Tips?

[Christian]

Harald Massa <cpl.19.ghum at spamgourmet.com> wrote in message news:<Xns958065DCDDA60cpl19ghumspamgourmet at 195.20.224.116>...
> Dave Benjamin,
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, is there a way to do this also from PythonWin
> > (without having ctypes installed)?
> 
> the game is called "AnimateWindow".
> I posted a ctypes-programm to pywin32 mailinglist two weeks ago. It just 
> was not robust enough to go into the wiki.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that you need to use AnimateWindow
to do a balloon tip.  In recent versions of PyWin32 a simple call to
win32gui.Shell_NotifyIcon is all you need.

> With build 203 Python win32 extension by Mark Hammond also wrap the 
> AnimateWindow function (on XP), but they came out yesterday so I just read 
> the change notes that they do; did not find a demo. So... please download 
> pywin32 and try :)))

I modified a taskbar icon demo (from
http://www.itamarst.org/software/) the other day to add a balloon tip
to it.  I have the modified demo available at
http://www.dowski.com/python/taskbardemo.py.

Christian