On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, adamn...@gmail.com wrote:
> Probably obscure, but I'll give it a go anyway...
> 
> This project has about 80 or so Timers running at any given time, when they 
> fire some stuff is updated and then a balloon pops up to alert the user that 
> some update has happened.  All fantastic.  
> 
> And an added bonus is that the balloon pops up on any virtual desktop. Which 
> is even more fantastic as far as I am concerned and exactly what I have been 
> looking for for some years.
> 
> What is not so great is that when this happens on the desktop where the app 
> is running, not only does the balloon appear, but the actual form that 
> produces the balloon gets popped up to the top of the desktop. Which is 
> infuriating if the user is actually in another app on that desktop. Even 
> further, the project itself has a bunch of popup forms where the user can 
> enter manual updates of some data. When the balloon appears (and the main 
> form) the popup is lowered and you cannot bring it back to the top layer.
> 
> I'll try a more concrete example (or two), to see if I can explain what I am 
> trying to do a bit more clearly.
> 
> I have my email client (sylpheed) running, every so often it goes and checks 
> for incoming mail.  If there is some new mail a boxy looking thing appears at 
> the bottom right corner of the screen telling me I have new mail. No matter 
> which desktop I am actually on at the time.  A bit later that boxy thing 
> fades away. It doesn't interrupt what I am doing in any way, nor does it pop 
> up the main email client screen.
> Similarly, on my laptop I have Batti running which when I'm getting a bit low 
> on battery power pops up a message in the desktop panel telling me to plug 
> the damn thing in. Again this does not interrupt what I'm doing.
> 
> So, how can I achieve the same effect in gambas?
> 

Sounds like a feature of your DE (and I'm not good with DEs) but a quick
search suggests something called libnotify for sending desktop notifications.
It is said to be toolkit- and desktop-independent, but you need a conforming
notification daemon running -- which you may already have, if you can see
notifications from other programs (assuming they use the same machinery).

So, I guess you would need a gb.libnotify component (it really doesn't look
hard to do, there's only maybe 3 dozen functions in the library and it seems
you only need as few as 5 of them to show your first notification).

If you can't do that, there seems to be a tool called "notify-send" which
looks like it lets you access all the library features via the command-line.
That said, notify-send does nothing on my desktop, probably because I don't
run a fancy notification server...

Regards,
Tobi

-- 
"There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk

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