[Gambas-user] Balloons, everywhere but when I don't want them.

[Tobias Boege]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Tony Morehen wrote:
> Gambas can talk to the notifications daemon via Dbus.  I use this code:
> 
> Private NotifyInterface As String = "org.freedesktop.Notifications"
> Private NotifyApp As String = "session://" & NotifyInterface
> Private NotifyPath As String = "/" & Replace(NotifyInterface, ".", "/")
> 
> 'does the daemon support icon, body, button to click etc
>   Dim sArray As String[] = Dbus[NotifyApp][NotifyPath,
> NotifyInterface].GetCapabilities()
> 'popup (the hintsCollection is an empty collection, iDuration = -1, use
> default)
>         notifyID = Dbus[NotifyApp][NotifyPath,
> NotifyInterface].Notify(AppName, notifyID, IconPath,SummaryText, BodyText,
> [TextToSignal, ButtonText], hintsCollection, iDuration)
> 'setup dbussignal to get popup closed and and buttonpressed notifications
> 
> Private  NotifySignal as New DbusSignal(Dbus.Session,NotifyInterface, True)
> As "NotifyDbusSignal"
> 'signal handler
> Public Sub NotifyDbusSignal_Signal(Signal As String, Arguments As Variant[])
>   Select Case Signal
>     Case "NotificationClosed"
>     Case "ActionInvoked"
>       'Arguments[0] contains TextToSignal from above
>   End Select
> End
> 

I just checked the code and this is exactly what libnotify does.

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