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- From: lardieri@hotlips.Princeton.EDU (Stephen Lardieri)
- Subject: Automatic dismissal of Notification Manager alerts
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.190441.5420@Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Princeton University
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:04:41 GMT
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- Is there a way for a program running in the foreground to a) detect
- when some other program has put up a Notification Manager alert box
- and b) automatically dismiss that alert box if the user doesn't
- respond in a certain amount of time?
-
- The program in question is meant to be left running unattended for
- long amounts of time. It should obviously not block Notifications
- completely in case the user happens to be in the vicinity of the
- Macintosh, but if the machine is sitting in an empty room trying to
- get work done, then it should not come to a screeching halt because
- some other program is trying to tell the absent user about new e-mail
- or somesuch.
-
- What would be ideal is to have any timed-out Notifications re-displayed
- when the user returns and clicks the mouse to tell my program that
- a human being is present again. Is that possible?
-
- Oh yes; this program will be System 7 only.
-