Desktop Popup support?

[KEyers]

I've got it running well on my pc... but where I'd really like to use
this is in the car. Currently, I have a PC installed in my car with a
7" monitor in the dash. I want to be able to use this app there and
have notifications pop up on my screen.

Now, I can do this... but the current notifications are far too small
to read. I'd love it if it was possible to have a notification window
pop up with a text size adjustment to make it easier to see.

Also, I believe this project is open source... If it is, in fact, open
source, may I have a copy of the source code so I can have a buddy of
mine implement the changes I'm looking for? If it's not, I hope i'm
not stepping on anyone's toes by asking..

Thanks for your time.

[David Precious]

On Saturday 09 April 2011 22:36:28 KEyers wrote:
> Now, I can do this... but the current notifications are far too small
> to read. I'd love it if it was possible to have a notification window
> pop up with a text size adjustment to make it easier to see.

I believe the notifier app just fires a popup alert window via your desktop
manager's methods, so your desktop environment (KDE / GNOME etc) is in control
of how it looks.

> Also, I believe this project is open source... If it is, in fact, open
> source, may I have a copy of the source code so I can have a buddy of
> mine implement the changes I'm looking for? If it's not, I hope i'm
> not stepping on anyone's toes by asking..

Indeed, the project page on Google Code indicates that it is released under
the Apache 2.0 licence, so source code should be available, but isn't visible
anywhere prominent on the Google Code project page.

I'm not sure it'll help you though, as mentioned above, the styling of the
alert boxes will not be controlled by the app.

Cheers

Dave P

--
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http://www.preshweb.co.uk/

"Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support
it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)

[KEyers]

I think it is controlled by the app... Right now it just sends a
little notification bubble to the OS, which displays it in a small
bubble above the clock.

I want it in a window.. big and prominent, in the center of the
screen...

the information is being sent to the OS app... it's up to the app on
where it prints the text.... I just need the ability to reroute this
text.

Thanks for your input though! nice to know this isn't a dead please to
post messages..


~ke

On Apr 11, 5:45 am, David Precious <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 April 2011 22:36:28 KEyers wrote:
>
> > Now, I can do this... but the current notifications are far too small
> > to read. I'd love it if it was possible to have a notification window
> > pop up with a text size adjustment to make it easier to see.
>
> I believe the notifier app just fires a popup alert window via your desktop
> manager's methods, so your desktop environment (KDE / GNOME etc) is in control
> of how it looks.
>
> > Also, I believe this project is open source... If it is, in fact, open
> > source, may I have a copy of the source code so I can have a buddy of
> > mine implement the changes I'm looking for? If it's not, I hope i'm
> > not stepping on anyone's toes by asking..
>
> Indeed, the project page on Google Code indicates that it is released under
> the Apache 2.0 licence, so source code should be available, but isn't visible
> anywhere prominent on the Google Code project page.
>
> I'm not sure it'll help you though, as mentioned above, the styling of the
> alert boxes will not be  controlled by the app.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave P
>
> --

> David Precious  ("bigpresh")http://www.preshweb.co.uk/

[David Precious]

On Monday 11 April 2011 20:47:37 KEyers wrote:
> I think it is controlled by the app... Right now it just sends a
> little notification bubble to the OS, which displays it in a small
> bubble above the clock.

It sends a notification "to the OS", but it doesn't have control over how that
notification will look, as far as I'm aware.

> I want it in a window.. big and prominent, in the center of the
> screen...
>
> the information is being sent to the OS app... it's up to the app on
> where it prints the text.... I just need the ability to reroute this
> text.

Ah... of course - in the preferences for the notifier daemon, you can choose
notification display methods, but also for each notification type, define
commands to execute, so you could run whatever you want.

Executing something like xosd to display a message, passing it the font and
text size desired, would probably do the job.

[dasetbc]

On Apr 11, 9:47 pm, KEyers <kyle.ey...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is controlled by the app... Right now it just sends a
> little notification bubble to the OS, which displays it in a small
> bubble above the clock.
>
> I want it in a window.. big and prominent, in the center of the
> screen...
>
> the information is being sent to the OS app... it's up to the app on
> where it prints the text.... I just need the ability to reroute this
> text.
>
> Thanks for your input though! nice to know this isn't a dead please to
> post messages..

well, it is kind of easy to do that, I did something like that with
python on windows:
In Android Notifier Preferences: 'Notification Actions' check 'Execute
Commands' and put
"start pythonw.exe C:\proba2tk.pyw {title} {type} {description} " .
It starts 'proba2tk.pyw' python tkinter application wich display
normal window. Then it is just a matter of styling tkinter
application...

python file:
///////////
import sys
from Tkinter import *
scriptime, stoje, stoje2, stoje3, stoje4 = sys.argv
root = Tk()
w = Label(root, text=str(scriptime) + str(stoje) + str(stoje2))
w.pack()
root.mainloop()
raw_input()
//////////