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1274 :: What's a good way to display notifications in the system tray using Nim?

• G4MR (orginal) [2015-05-30T02:12:25+02:00] view original

  Thinking about writing some simple background apps that just run and alert me from the notification area on windows/linux (experimenting on my laptop from time to time) and wondering if there's a simple way to pull this off with Nim?

  (example: http://i.imgur.com/XPSEY48.png)

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• Varriount (orginal) [2015-05-30T03:37:04+02:00] view original

  TO do something like this, you either need to resort to system specific APIs, or rely on a GUI library to abstract the mechanisms away. For Windows, an overview of the notification and tray APIs can be found here. I don't know what would need to be done with regards to Linux - I'm guessing it would depend on what desktop managers and GUI toolkits you want to support.

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• G4MR (orginal) [2015-05-30T18:21:37+02:00] view original

  After messing around for a bit I've gotten the following to display an .ico icon in the system tray, only problem is I couldn't get the bubble to display.

  https://gist.github.com/G4MR/b1767ac54d47939bbf5d

  I also had the add the following to the windows.nim file for the NOTIFYICONDATAA* object

  
  
  uVersion*: WINUINT
  dwInfoFlags*: DWORD
  szInfo*: array[0..255, char]
  szInfoTitle*: array[0..63, char]
  Run

  You can see the icon at the top left http://i.imgur.com/Gfiwgw6.png, wondering if anyone could give this a stab on windows and get this working. Would be pretty cool. There's only so much that I can puzzle together

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