Can't display more than one BalloonTip (consequently)

[Maxim-CADman77]

I want to get a clear understanding of possibilities and limitations of BalloonTip object.
I've found minimal working sample of BalloonTip-related code here, but for some reason Inventor ignores my attempt to consequently show two BalloonTips (it just shows the first one).

My iLogic-code is:

Option Explicit On

Dim invApp As Inventor.Application = ThisApplication
Dim uiMgr As UserInterfaceManager = invApp.UserInterfaceManager
Dim blnTips As BalloonTips= uiMgr.BalloonTips

Dim myBlnIntName, myBlnTitle As String
myBlnIntName = Now.ToString("ss")
myBlnTitle = myBlnIntName

Dim myBlnTip As BalloonTip
Try
	myBlnTip = blnTips(myBlnIntName)
Catch
	myBlnTip = blnTips.Add(myBlnIntName, myBlnTitle, "1-True")
End Try
myBlnTip.Display()
myBlnTip.Delete

' Threading.Thread.Sleep(9999)

myBlnTip = blnTips.Add(myBlnIntName, myBlnTitle, "2-False")
myBlnTip.Display()
myBlnTip.Delete

Dear @MjDeck  could you, please clarify what I'm missing?

[MjDeck]

Hi Maxim - can you try with a different InternalName for the second balloon? The documentation says that the internal name must be unique. (However, you have deleted the first one before creating the second one.)

[Maxim-CADman77]

This does not help (in fact I've tried this before posing to forum).

I've tried to replace line 22 with two lines:

myBlnTip = blnTips.Add(myBlnIntName & 1, myBlnTitle, "2-False")
logger.Info("myBlnTip.InternalName-2: " & myBlnTip.InternalName)

Logger reports the InternalName change (three digits insead of two for first) but my Inventor still not shows the second BalloonTip instance.

Moreover if I uncomment line 20 I get the delay BEFORE the first BalloonTip which is not what I would expect.

[MjDeck · Accepted solution]

Here is a sample based on your rule. This worked for me.

[Maxim-CADman77]

Thank you so much - your sample works (even so I don't understand why the cycle with 20 iterations of 50millisecond delay is needed).
Hope you could answer one more related question:

Can the same BalloonTip be consequently displayed with different messages?

[MjDeck]

The cycle calls DoEvents to give Inventor a chance to show the balloon tip and respond to events. It's there so that you can see the first tip for a while before it gets deleted.
Yes, I think you can show the same tip with different messages. The BalloonTip.Message property is read/write.