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

[Tony Morehen]

I'm not too sure that a component is needed since there is so little 
code involved.  I also not sure if a component would be appropriate.  
I'll put together a Howto and a demo class and uploaded it in a day or 
two to the mailing list.


On 2017-08-18 12:45 PM, Moviga Technologies wrote:
> This could perhaps implemented into the gb.Desktop component as
> 'Desktop.Notify()'?
>
> Den 18.08.2017 16:15, skrev 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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