Introduction
In this article we will be learning how to create a Messenger style popup window that can be used as an alert for your desktop. This popup alert window will pop up on the bottom right hand corner of the screen and will stay in position for three seconds. It will then start to slowly start to close by disappearing into your windows task bar… or at least appearing so. As this window starts to disappear down your screen you will also notice it starting to fade away as well.
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Implementation
The only real issue or variable in this example is the resolution of the screen. To help implementation run smoother and for the overall concept to work we will have to account for the various resolutions on the market today. In order to do this we will calculate the working area of the screen and use that as the basis for all calculations.
The following code explains how all of this is done.
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace CreatePopupAlerts
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
int xPos = 0;
int yPos = 0;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SetValues();
closeTimer.Start();
}
private void SetValues()
{
xPos = Screen.GetWorkingArea(this).Width;
yPos = Screen.GetWorkingArea(this).Height;
this.Location = new Point(xPos - this.Width, yPos - this.Height);
}
private void closeTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
closeTimer.Interval = 200;
int curYPos = this.Location.Y;
if (curYPos < yPos)
{
this.Location = new Point(xPos - this.Width, curYPos + 8);
this.Opacity = this.Opacity - 0.050;
}
else
{
this.Close();
}
}
}
}
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Screen shot of the Timer properties:
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Compile and execute the above code. When the application starts the window will be placed in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. At this point you have your original position and the opacity is set to 100. The timer starts and we wait three seconds, when that three seconds is up the form starts to lower itself into the task bar and the opacity starts to fade away.
Screen shot of the results of the above example:
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