Could you recommend a Windows tool which can show custom notifications in corner
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Question
Could you recommend a Windows tool which can show custom notifications in corner of the screen (or at its edge) which I can control through the command line or through API?
So I'm seeking my own way to create kind of notification bubbles with custom information popping from corner of the screen.
I have tested growl so far but it haswas 2-3 years ago and that time I experienced in some of its features poor performance on Windows. It also had serious problems with control via COM/API.
Optional but welcome features include:
message queue (handles more messages in queue)
custom skin
custom icon/image
COM or other API interface
Explanation / Answer
I've personally been using Snarl lately. I've predominantly been just using built and I haven't done any low level custom notifications so far; I have done custom notifications through the Grunt-Nofity plugin for Grunt.
Responsiveness and appearances I've quite liked although I did disable a lot of the built in updates - because at least on a laptop which I power off regularly being notified that I had disconnected/reconnected to each network is yucky (especially when you are using mutliple Virtual Machine sessions with their own fake network adapter). However enabling/disabling them was quite easy so that is not a significant downside to my mind - sure I'd like to have a tinsy bit saner of automatic setup but it isn't a problem really.
It has quite a bit of easily setup/built in notifiers/supported apps.
In regards to your extras:
message queue (handles more messages in queue): hmmmm... not sure exactly what you mean but it can handle many messages at the same time if that is what you are thinking.
custom skin: I think so; but you may only be able to do global styling rather than individual notification specific styling. Information about styling and the available styles would probably be a good starting point for developing your own style(s).
custom icon/image: Recommended.
COM or other API interface: Yes; in fact it has both an activeX/COM library, a whole slew of different language specific libraries and if that wasn't enough you can also send JSON formatted notifications from within browsers or use GNTP.