Desktop Notification/Alerts In Python

[Chaos]

I am looking for ways to have a Desktop Alert, like the one most IM
Messengers have (MSN, AIM) at the lower right above the taskbar. Can
anyone point me to the right resources to use?

 

[zutesmog]

I am looking for ways to have a Desktop Alert, like the one most IM
Messengers have (MSN, AIM) at the lower right above the taskbar. Can
anyone point me to the right resources to use?

I am not sure exactly what you are looking for but
I assume you are using windows, so I would suggest you make sure you
have Mark Hammonds win32all
(http://www.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/) installed
and have a look at the demos there.

T

 

[alex23]

I am looking for ways to have a Desktop Alert, like the one most IM
Messengers have (MSN, AIM) at the lower right above the taskbar. Can
anyone point me to the right resources to use?

Under Windows, they're called "balloon tips". Here's a thread from a
few years back asking for the exact same thing:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...83650b50f1d/f26db0efc52462f9#f26db0efc52462f9

There's even a working demo linked to at the end of the thread, and the
link is still live.

Thanks for prompting me to look, I've vaguely wanted something like
this for a while

-alex23

 

[Chaos]

Under Windows, they're called "balloon tips". Here's a thread from a
few years back asking for the exact same thing:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...83650b50f1d/f26db0efc52462f9#f26db0efc52462f9

There's even a working demo linked to at the end of the thread, and the
link is still live.

Thanks for prompting me to look, I've vaguely wanted something like
this for a while

-alex23

Is there a way to make it a window, instead of a baloon time. One that
slides up from the taskbar?

 

[bugnthecode]

I get these alerts from gmail-notify. It's for linux, but a quick look
over the source shows that it uses gtk which I believe to be a cross
platform library (though may be a little ugly on windows) I wouldn't
imagine it to be too hard to modify this to your needs.

Project home page:
http://gmail-notify.sourceforge.net/

HTH,
Will