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Re: Programmatic access to the notification area (aka the System Tray)



Rob Ross wrote:

>I didn't implement the showBalloonMessage on the Mac mainly because the Mac
>doesn't normally have that kind of notification balloon like on Windows.
>(That's the one where a bubble pops up over an icon in the windows task bar
>and tells you that you have mail, or a software download is ready to be
>installed, etc.)

Bounce the requesting app's Dock icon instead?

Badge it with a thought-balloon icon?

Optionally speak the notification text?

Just thinking out loud, as it were.

  -- GG


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