Re: Windows notifications

2019-02-07 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
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

Re: Windows notifications

2019-02-07 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
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

Re: Windows notifications

2019-02-07 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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.

Windows notifications

2019-02-07 Thread Andrew Bell via use-livecode
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