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I have an application that uses my own balloon form. This is a non-bordered, fsStayOnTop kind form. I show it with this code: ShowWindow(Handle, SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE); Visible := True; Today I realized that if I activate another application then the balloon is not appearing! So it is loosing it's stay on top style. Environment: Win7/x64 Delphi 6 Professional What I can do with it? Thanks: dd What worked for me in the past when struggling with stay-on-top forms: Form := TMyForm.Create(Self); Application.NormalizeTopMosts; SetWindowPos(Form.Handle, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOACTIVATE + SWP

I have the property "AutoPopDelay" set to 60000, but every time I hover over an associated element, the balloon only stays open for 5 seconds even when my mouse pointer stays over stationary over the element. Any ideas on what could be causing this? Edit: I am using WinForms Reading the documentation for the AutoPopDelay on MSDN ( link ) the maximum time you can delay a popup is 5000 milliseconds . If you want a longer duration, use the Show method to control the exact moment when the ToolTip is displayed. ... However, I believe that you are trying to cure the symptoms and not the cause of

Is it possible to change the location of the Arrow / Stem in a Balloon Tooltip? Reason to change is because of a Button, located in the top of the screen, should have a tooltip below it. broken image link removed Above is the situation right now, I only need the arrow to be on the top-left side of the balloon. You do not need to do anything special as the placement is automatic according to MSDN. Do have you an issue with ballon tooltip ? I used InteropServices to call several User32.dll methods (CreateWindowEx, DestroyWindow, SetWindowPos and SendMessage) to use native Win32 tooltips instead

I am working on the application (C# 2.0). I have implemented single instance in it. Everything is fine. If i run the application again, it shows messagebox saying "instance is already running". Actually i don't want to show the message through messagebox. I want to show this message using Balloon tip of already running instance (it has notify icon in system tray). How can i achieve this? Thanks in advance. You need a form of interprocess communication , to signal to the other instance that it should display the messagebox. In this instance, you could go one better than telling the existing

When using TballoonHint , I need it more personalized in colors, shape, transparency and animated appearance, how can I do that? Create your own descendant of TBalloonHint or THintWindow . Override the NCPaint method to draw the outer edges (non-client area) and CalcHintRect (if needed), and provide your own Paint method to draw the interior as you'd like it to appear. Then assign it to Application.HintWindowClass in your .dpr file just before the call to Application.Run . Here's a (very minimal) example that does nothing but paint the standard hint window with a green background. Save this as