Re: What type of window for this?
Re: What type of window for this?
- Subject: Re: What type of window for this?
- From: Brian Ganninger <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:57:52 -0500
The best solution IMHO is Growl, a distributed on-screen notification
system. Full information for this open source project is available at
http://www.growl.info/
On Jun 24, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Darrin Cardani wrote:
I'm porting an application from Windows to Mac OS, and I'm trying
to figure out the proper way to port one particular feature. In
this application, every now and then, an event occurs that the user
might be interested in being notified about. It's not something
that needs immediate attention like you would use an alert or
dialog for, but is just something the user might want to know.
In the Windows version, at this point, a small window comes up over
the system tray and displays the information along with a link the
user can click on to go to a web site that contains more detail.
The window slides up from the task bar, stays up for about 10
seconds, then slides back down if the user doesn't click on the
link. The window doesn't take focus away from the main application
window, though, so the user can effectively ignore it if they want to.
Now, I could just pop up a utility window with the information, but
I'm just curious if there's anything equivalent to this. (Or better
yet, a more appropriate way to display the information to the
user!) I remember in OS 9, there were small utility-like windows
that had a yellow background that acted sort of like this. I used
to always get one when I rebooted my machine and was on a new
network. It would tell me that it couldn't find my usual printer,
and it usually displayed before the Finder was done starting. It
wasn't an alert, it was just a floating modeless window with some
text in it, and if I didn't dismiss it, it would just go away after
some set period of time (I think).
So is there anything like that in OS X or is there a better way to
do the same thing?
Thanks,
Darrin
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Darrin Cardani - email@hidden
President, Buena Software, Inc.
<http://www.buena.com/>
Video, Image and Audio Processing Development
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