MorphZone

Toasts for breakfast? No, Toasts for MorphOS!

Zylesea

# 1
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2057 from 2003/6/4

As I ate my toast for breakfast and sat in front of my Hollywood stuff I thought: We need some message systems like Android Toasts for MorphOS. I think on OS4 there's Ringhio providing such a functionality. I guess this would be a rather easy to implement feature and while not revolutionary it's pretty handy though. Could something like that please added to MorphOS?
I personally would like it very much as Hollywood supports these messages now on systems providing such a messaging system - but on MorphOS it yields some ugly console output..
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»01.03.19 - 07:17

Korni

# 2
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 472 from 2006/2/23

From: the Planet of ...

MagicBeacon exists for years. Ask Geit to add it ;).
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»01.03.19 - 07:28

Zylesea

# 3
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2057 from 2003/6/4

I think MagicBeacon is a bit more and a bit different, but could probably be used for it.
i would prefer just a plain messaging system that doesn't do anything by itself, but only if called by applications via according API calls. Best case IMHO if realized as a MUI class.
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Whenever you're sad just remember the world is 4.543 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.
...and Matthias , my friend - RIP
»01.03.19 - 08:02

jacadcaps

# 4
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 3108 from 2003/3/5

From: Canada

This is on my ToDo for some time now... no ETA yet though...
»01.03.19 - 08:23

Zylesea

# 5
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2057 from 2003/6/4

Quote:

jacadcaps schrieb:
This is on my ToDo for some time now... no ETA yet though...

Looking forward to it.
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Whenever you're sad just remember the world is 4.543 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.
...and Matthias , my friend - RIP
»01.03.19 - 18:38

softwarefailure

# 6
Caterpillar

Posts: 27 from 2011/4/24

Just for the record, I tried to add MagicBeacon support to Hollywood but had some trouble getting it to work. Wrote an email to geit on Dec 28th, never got a reply, so that explains the console fallback :)
»06.03.19 - 15:52

igracki

# 7
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 416 from 2003/2/24

From: Berlin

What problems did you had? Maybe I can help!
I used MagciBeacon in my otrMUI app.
»06.03.19 - 18:44

softwarefailure

# 8
Caterpillar

Posts: 27 from 2011/4/24

Well, if it's on jacadcaps list I think I might just wait for the official version...
»06.03.19 - 20:21

igracki

# 9

Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 416 from 2003/2/24

From: Berlin

One can also use SendRexxCommand() to show a bubble with MagicBeacon
Code:


Function p_MOSToast(text$, t)
Local str$
	str$ = "BUBBLE \""..text$.."\""
	If HaveItem(t, "x") Then str$ = str$.." X "..t.x
	If HaveItem(t, "Y") Then str$ = str$.." Y "..t.y
	If HaveItem(t, "Font") Then str$ = str$.." Font \""..t.font.."\""
	If HaveItem(t, "Skin") Then str$ = str$.." Skin \""..t.skin.."\""
	If HaveItem(t, "Image") Then str$ = str$.." Image "..t.image
	If HaveItem(t, "Color") Then str$ = str$.." Color "..t.color
	If HaveItem(t, "Mouse") Then str$ = str$.." MOUSE"
	If HaveItem(t, "Center") Then str$ = str$.." CENTER"
	If HaveItem(t, "Duration") Then str$ = str$.." Duration "..t.duration
	SendRexxCommand("MAGICBEACON", str$)
EndFunction

p_MOSToast("Hello", {mouse=true, font = "Lux/26", Skin="Woo0t", image="Connected"})

But SendRexxCommand() seems to have a problem with quotes in the command!?
Although I use a backslash quote to surround the text with quotes, it only works if you don't use spaces in your text!

»08.03.19 - 17:30

Korni

# 10
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 472 from 2006/2/23

From: the Planet of ...

Try to escape using * (asterisk)

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»08.03.19 - 22:34