Re: Windows notifications
On 2/7/19 4:21 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: doesn't the livecode updater display a normal windows notification? how do they do it?.. i have a similar challange right now.so this is very interesting. my only workaround so far is to open a stack with what i need and snap it to the bottom right and make it look like it came from the taskbar or dock. i suppose it works. bur i would appreciate a more native solution. When I've had to deal with this situation I've ended up creating a LiveCode external dll with an embedded Windows event loop to catch the notification messages, then passing them on to LC. You're probably best off with your VBScript solution. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Windows notifications
doesn't the livecode updater display a normal windows notification? how do
they do it?.. i have a similar challange right now.so this is very
interesting. my only workaround so far is to open a stack with what i need
and snap it to the bottom right and make it look like it came from the
taskbar or dock. i suppose it works. bur i would appreciate a more native
solution.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:33 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Create a standalone with socket communications and send commands to it to
> show, hide and anything else you need the stack to do. The real trick is to
> build it so that it doesn't show up in the taskbar, else people will close
> it. When your app opens, launch the executable with the stack hidden. Then
> pass calls via socket to your stack as I mentioned. I did this once and it
> worked quite well, except that I didn't know then how to prevent an app
> from appearing in the task bar or the MacOS Dock.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Feb 7, 2019, at 12:32 , Andrew Bell via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to modify a Windows stack to alert the user when a
> particular event happens while the app is in the background or minimized.
> Something like mergNotify, but for Windows, would be ideal.
> >
> > My first thought was to change the taskbar icon, like Outlook does when
> I have a new email or Skype does to display my status. The forum and
> dictionary proved "set the icon to (some ID)" doesn't work on Windows[1],
> but I could use the still-undocumented "set the statusIcon to (some ID)"
> property[2] to change the system tray icon.
> >
> > This sort of worked as I was able to make a little repeat loop that
> changed the statusIcon[3] from one image to another and then back again to
> create an attention grabbing area at the bottom of the screen. My problem
> with this is that after the first time that alert is acknowledged, via
> statusIconDoubleClick in this case, any subsequent statusIcon changes are
> only displayed in the "Show hidden icons" of the system tray which in
> essence buries it from the users view (until the stack is relaunched). I
> confirmed this behavior with the Sons of Thunder product STSTray[4] which
> seems to suffer from the same problem.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a LiveCode native way to alert a Windows user? The
> closest I could find is to use "do as VBScript" with an AppActivate
> command[5], but was hoping for something using LC script directly (although
> this forced me to learn some VBScript and use the "do as alternateLanguage"
> command[6] which were both foreign to me).
> >
> > put "Set objShell = CreateObject(" & QUOTE & "Wscript.Shell" & QUOTE &
> ")" into tScript
> > put RETURN & "objShell.AppActivate" && QUOTE & "taskbar_icon_demo" &
> QUOTE after tScript
> > do tScript as "VBScript"
> >
> >
> > --Andrew Bell
>
>
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Re: Windows notifications
Create a standalone with socket communications and send commands to it to show,
hide and anything else you need the stack to do. The real trick is to build it
so that it doesn't show up in the taskbar, else people will close it. When your
app opens, launch the executable with the stack hidden. Then pass calls via
socket to your stack as I mentioned. I did this once and it worked quite well,
except that I didn't know then how to prevent an app from appearing in the task
bar or the MacOS Dock.
Bob S
> On Feb 7, 2019, at 12:32 , Andrew Bell via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I am trying to modify a Windows stack to alert the user when a particular
> event happens while the app is in the background or minimized. Something like
> mergNotify, but for Windows, would be ideal.
>
> My first thought was to change the taskbar icon, like Outlook does when I
> have a new email or Skype does to display my status. The forum and dictionary
> proved "set the icon to (some ID)" doesn't work on Windows[1], but I could
> use the still-undocumented "set the statusIcon to (some ID)" property[2] to
> change the system tray icon.
>
> This sort of worked as I was able to make a little repeat loop that changed
> the statusIcon[3] from one image to another and then back again to create an
> attention grabbing area at the bottom of the screen. My problem with this is
> that after the first time that alert is acknowledged, via
> statusIconDoubleClick in this case, any subsequent statusIcon changes are
> only displayed in the "Show hidden icons" of the system tray which in essence
> buries it from the users view (until the stack is relaunched). I confirmed
> this behavior with the Sons of Thunder product STSTray[4] which seems to
> suffer from the same problem.
>
> Can anyone suggest a LiveCode native way to alert a Windows user? The closest
> I could find is to use "do as VBScript" with an AppActivate command[5], but
> was hoping for something using LC script directly (although this forced me to
> learn some VBScript and use the "do as alternateLanguage" command[6] which
> were both foreign to me).
>
> put "Set objShell = CreateObject(" & QUOTE & "Wscript.Shell" & QUOTE & ")"
> into tScript
> put RETURN & "objShell.AppActivate" && QUOTE & "taskbar_icon_demo" & QUOTE
> after tScript
> do tScript as "VBScript"
>
>
> --Andrew Bell
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Windows notifications
I am trying to modify a Windows stack to alert the user when a
particular event happens while the app is in the background or
minimized. Something like mergNotify, but for Windows, would be ideal.
My first thought was to change the taskbar icon, like Outlook does
when I have a new email or Skype does to display my status. The forum
and dictionary proved "set the icon to (some ID)" doesn't work on
Windows[1], but I could use the still-undocumented "set the statusIcon
to (some ID)" property[2] to change the system tray icon.
This sort of worked as I was able to make a little repeat loop that
changed the statusIcon[3] from one image to another and then back
again to create an attention grabbing area at the bottom of the
screen. My problem with this is that after the first time that alert
is acknowledged, via statusIconDoubleClick in this case, any
subsequent statusIcon changes are only displayed in the "Show hidden
icons" of the system tray which in essence buries it from the users
view (until the stack is relaunched). I confirmed this behavior with
the Sons of Thunder product STSTray[4] which seems to suffer from the
same problem.
Can anyone suggest a LiveCode native way to alert a Windows user? The
closest I could find is to use "do as VBScript" with an AppActivate
command[5], but was hoping for something using LC script directly
(although this forced me to learn some VBScript and use the "do as
alternateLanguage" command[6] which were both foreign to me).
put "Set objShell = CreateObject(" & QUOTE & "Wscript.Shell" & QUOTE
& ")" into tScript
put RETURN & "objShell.AppActivate" && QUOTE & "taskbar_icon_demo" &
QUOTE after tScript
do tScript as "VBScript"
--Andrew Bell
Links to reference documents:
1 - http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=31278
2 - https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20762
3 - http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/StatusIcon
4 - http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/ststray/ststray.htm
5 - https://ss64.com/vb/appactivate.html
6 - https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=16652
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