Hidden Application
Hi guys,
My boss has been constantly asking me and other members of my team to remind him to do things, and it's gotten to the stage where we have decided it's best to install a little program that runs in the background of his computer, and every 30 minutes comes up and displays a message for him, fullscreen which lasts about 10 seconds.
How would I go about making such an application? I will want to add extra things onto it at a later date, so it could become a bit more useful, but for now it's purely to aggravate him so that he stops asking us to remember everything for him.
Cheers guys!
My boss has been constantly asking me and other members of my team to remind him to do things, and it's gotten to the stage where we have decided it's best to install a little program that runs in the background of his computer, and every 30 minutes comes up and displays a message for him, fullscreen which lasts about 10 seconds.
How would I go about making such an application? I will want to add extra things onto it at a later date, so it could become a bit more useful, but for now it's purely to aggravate him so that he stops asking us to remember everything for him.
Cheers guys!
The simplest way? IMHO, is set the ShowInTaskbar property of the windows form to false.
Create a timer and set the timer interval for 30 minutes and when the timer elapsed event is triggered show the form.
When he's done handling the event, etc..
hide the form again.
Create a timer and set the timer interval for 30 minutes and when the timer elapsed event is triggered show the form.
When he's done handling the event, etc..
hide the form again.
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That sounds like a pretty good idea, and thanks for the link, had a look and may use that at some point, but for now I just want to make something simple to annoy my boss, he will probably ask me to delete it half way through the day anyway, hehe.
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topdog770, that's basically what I want, but how would I go about making the application appear in the taskbar area?
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No problem, I had forgotten about this thread myself due to the lack of activity.
Thanks for the reply, just tried it and it works perfectly!
Thanks for the reply, just tried it and it works perfectly!
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not meant as answer but why not use outlook it has a great reminder function that can handle snooze, all kind of time settings and the complete scheduling from minutes to weeks, besides you can mail yourself reminders
a a suggestion you could use this control
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/Calendardayview.asp // free registration
use it as a start
add it to a form
plus a timer control to check for events in the day list to act upon
when the the timer tick comes you popup the appointment as you wish
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