Outlook 2003 Style Notifications | Tech Off

PeterH
Iomesus

Does anyone know how to trigger a notification in the bottom right hand corner of the screen in the style of those provided by Outlook 2003 when a new email is recieved? I am programming in C#

Thanks in advance.

Simo
With me it's a full-time job.

Well the genghis project ( http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/genghis/) provide messenger style pop-up toast.

e.g. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/genghis/screenshots/AniForm.JPG

PeterH
Iomesus

Thanks for the reply Simo, but it actually needs to be the same as the Outlook 2003 notification pop-up.

For anyone that doesn't know what I mean it's here:

http://www.brentozar.com/buyingtime/Outlook2003/TrayNotification.gif

figuerres
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Visual STudio Magazine, Nov 2004, Page 18
"Spice up your windows forms"
Authors: Andrew Flick and Jason Beres

http://www.visualstudiomagazine.com/

http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2004_11/magazine/features/jberes/

PeterH
Iomesus

Thanks for the reply figuerres. I don't know if I'm looking in the wrong place, but the code to show you how to do the Outlook pop-up only explains how to make something fade in and then back out again smoothly, rather then how to actually create the pop-up notification itself.

Edit: Found it, sorry that was really stupid of me.

figuerres
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It's a form.

what are you looking for exactly??

look at the code and article....

it has the "fade in fade out" mentions mouse interaction...

in the part on the MSN / Messenger style it talks about how to locate the toast at the lower right hand corner.

the rest is what you put in the form and how you "decorate" it.

just make a borderless form and then paint it with your own logic.

add images / icons for stuff like "X" marks or other small gfx.

the title bar can be a graphi or you could make a custom control -- but a graphic will be quick and simple.

what else??

figuerres
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and I was commenting while you found your info Smiley

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

That's spooky. I've never seen an Outlook 2003 email message popup before.

How do you turn them on?

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

W3bbo wrote:
That's spooky. I've never seen an Outlook 2003 email message popup before.

How do you turn them on?

Do you use IMAP? They're not supported on IMAP accounts.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Sven Groot wrote:
Do you use IMAP? They're not supported on IMAP accounts.

I found the option, I use Exchange anyway, but since my email is in other mailboxes I open at the same time and the notifications only work for the primary mailbox (which I don't use for email) this doesn't really help me.

So question: Why can't notifications be used on secondary mailboxes?

Aayush Puri

Peter Hogg wrote:

Edit: Found it, sorry that was really stupid of me.

Please share the URL of the tutorial or article which solved your problem.

PeterH
Iomesus

Joe Stegman just sent me this brilliant example which anyone interested should really check out:

http://www.peter-hogg.com/filedump/OutlookMailPreview_Everett.zip

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

W3bbo wrote:
How do you turn them on?

I have the opposite question. How do you turn them off?

I subscribe to several mailing lists, and get several heartbeat-style monitoring emails - these are processed via server-side rules into subfolders, but my "New Mail" icon is ALWAYS on.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Maurits wrote:
I have the opposite question. How do you turn them off?

I subscribe to several mailing lists, and get several heartbeat-style monitoring emails - these are processed via server-side rules into subfolders, but my "New Mail" icon is ALWAYS on.

Outlook > Tools > Options > E-mail Options (2nd button) > Advanced E-mail Options > When new items arrive in my Inbox > Display a New Mail Desktop Alert (default Inbox only)

The bold bit I'm not happy with. Why can't it work with other mailboxes?

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

W3bbo wrote:
Display a New Mail Desktop Alert

Nice!

Must be new in Outlook 2003 - My Outlook 2000 only has "Play a sound" and "Change the mouse cursor"
(And also, on the previous screen, "Display a notification message")

figuerres
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Peter Hogg wrote:
Joe Stegman just sent me this brilliant example which anyone interested should really check out:

http://www.peter-hogg.com/filedump/OutlookMailPreview_Everett.zip

Yeah!!! like how it take the stuff we were chating about and rolls it into a nice package....

now if it was taken just a tad further....

like slecting the title bar and so other settings....

but this shows how to get from a to b very nicely

GurliGebis

When I click the button it pops up, but it doesn't fade out again, is this normal?

PeterH
Iomesus

It's here, on the second page:

http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2004_11/magazine/features/jberes/

But you have to register to see it, I found the page cached on google if you don't want to go through the hassle of registering:

Here

PeterH
Iomesus

Sorry to bring back such an old thread, but I'm sure most of you will understand the reason.

I've just been contacted by a developer looking for the file I was hosting containing the example, however I have left my host leaving a broken link, and unfortunatly I did not back up the file to my hard drive.

I was hoping one of you may have still got the file and could either upload it or send it to me.

Sorry about this, thanks.

PeterH

ryexley

I'd be very interested in the sample code as well if somebody happens to have it. Thanks.

`ryan

In reply to ryexley

#Jul 17th, 2006 @ 8:56 PM

if anybody is still looking for the article posted by figuerres
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=1773