Windows bubble notifications

[PartyCow]

Hey

As the title says, is there a way to replicate a such thing as the windows built in bubble notifications?
(I'm speaking about those classic good ol' windows XP notifications)
Looking to make the window not showing, but notifications still on top.

Really interesting to know if this could work.

Thanks

[ivan]

I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to draw something similar in the game window using love.graphics.
If you mean an OS notification that is independent of the Love2d window then probably no because it would break compatibility with other platforms like Mac or Linux.

[Jasoco]

I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to draw something similar in the game window using love.graphics.
If you mean an OS notification that is independent of the Love2d window then probably no because it would break compatibility with other platforms like Mac or Linux.

Both OS X and Linux both have their own notification systems that work the same way. Or at least OS X does.

It would probably be trivial for the Löve devs to implement, but is there a reason to do so?

[josefnpat]

It would probably be trivial for the Löve devs to implement, but is there a reason to do so?

IMO It would be really hard to do so reliably.

For example, gnome has libnotify, which would do something along these lines;

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os.execute('notify-send Hello World')

But we all know many linux distros don't have gnome, and use alternate notification libraries.

For OSX it's odd because the notification was only included in the last few releases (Mavericks?). Before that one had to use growl.

With the Mavericks, one would use action script;

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os.execute('actionscript-binary "display notification 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet' with title 'Title'")

For Windows, I assume you would have to use the windows api;

This would be really hard to reliably get to work cross-platform if you ask me.

[Zeliarden]

Maybe?
http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html

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local ffi = require("ffi")
ffi.cdef[[
int MessageBoxA(void *w, const char *txt, const char *cap, int type);
]]
ffi.C.MessageBoxA(nil, "Hello world!", "Test", 0)

[Positive07]

You might want to download the nighty builds for LOVE 0.9.2 since this version supports message boxes through the love.window.showMessageBox api, you can get more info here

Or just wait for 0.9.2 to be released but that might take its time

[Jasoco]

You might want to download the nighty builds for LOVE 0.9.2 since this version supports message boxes through the love.window.showMessageBox api, you can get more info here

Or just wait for 0.9.2 to be released but that might take its time

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HTTP ERROR 404

Problem accessing /job/LOVE-OSX/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/love-osx.zip. Reason:

    Not Found

Now I'm sad.

Please fix please! I want 0.9.2 because it fixes an issue I reported about teeny tiny error messages on HighDPI enabled projects on Retina displays.

[PartyCow]

I'll look into these things, thanks people!

[Ref]

On my system (windows 7) love.window.showMessageBox( type, title, message ) is a little strange.
I can't really see any difference between types 'info', 'warning' or 'error'.
Also, if the message has a space in it, only the first word is displayed.

[Positive07]

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HTTP ERROR 404

Problem accessing /job/LOVE-OSX/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/love-osx.zip. Reason:

    Not Found

Now I'm sad.

Please fix please! I want 0.9.2 because it fixes an issue I reported about teeny tiny error messages on HighDPI enabled projects on Retina displays.

Maybe a little outdated but you can grab it anyway (since the fix you want is there)

On my system (windows 7) love.window.showMessageBox( type, title, message ) is a little strange.
I can't really see any difference between types 'info', 'warning' or 'error'.
Also, if the message has a space in it, only the first word is displayed.

Can you give us some pictures, love file and/or system info? It would be great to submit an issue on the issue tracker

PS: I recommend downloading directly from hawkthorne since you can be guaranteed that it is up to date with the latest commits