Hi, in one application I used the terminal command "notify-send" which sends those black bubbles on top right of the desktop. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/notify-send.1.html Cheers, Giuseppe.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Alan Mazer <alan.s.ma...@jpl.nasa.gov>wrote: > Hi. I need some advice because I think I might be missing something > simple! > > I have an app with a worker thread. The app is doing real-time image > display and plotting with data from an attached science instrument. > > Occasionally the worker thread will detect an error which the user needs > to know about. Previously I had the worker thread creating MessageDialogs > for these messages but I realized that I should probably be using a > dispatcher instead. > > I noticed two things when I switched, first that plotting and image > display now stop when there's an error until the dialog is dismissed, and > more importantly, that if the user doesn't acknowledge the dialog > immediately and another dialog pops up, the entire application freezes. > Presumably, overlapped calls to a dispatcher are a big no no (which makes > sense). > > What's the best way to approach this? I'd like image display and plotting > to continue which messages are up, and I especially need a way to pop up an > indefinite number of message dialogs, not from the worker thread, without > the app freezing. > > -- Alan > ______________________________**_________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list<https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list> >
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