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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
