From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T16:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: wx ruby notify window?

On Dec 7, 5:04 am, Alex Fenton <af...@deleteme.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Christian Kerth wrote:
> > Hey I want to create a growl like notification system for a ruby
> > application. I'm using the wxruby toolkit.
>
> > Is there a component that allows such a behavior (display text, not
> > shown in taskbar...). I had a look at the splash screen component, but
> > that one isn't able to display text.
>
> There's nothing quite like this in wxRuby at the moment, because there's
> no cross-platform way at the moment to do it in the underlying toolkit.
> It's under discussion:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/API-for-transient-notification-messages--t48325...
>
> I guess you could use  Win32API to do it on Windows, but AFAIK there is
> no "native" way to do this on OS X, hence growl as an add-on. Perhaps
> Growl could be scripted via Ruby-Cocoa.
>
> I'd be interested to know if any of the other major toolkits support
> this: QT or GTK.

Don't know about QT, but there's libnotify (GTK-based lib) for linux.
Haven't played with the ruby bindings much.

Obligatory screenshot:
http://www.venraiker.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/libnotifyvx.png

References:
http://www.galago-project.org/news/index.php
http://trac.galago-project.org/wiki/NotifyWindow
http://ruby-libnotify.rubyforge.org/

> PS - these questions are better asked on the wxruby-users mailing list,
> where more people will see them:
>
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/36http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-users/
>
> alex

Regards,
Jordan