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V1.0.0 released! 🎊 Event on toast interaction now works! 🎉

I added some resize code this morning that seems to work well. There are still going to be some differences depending on what DPI scaling the user has set on their system. So I still have to factor DPI into the code at some point. Example with resize:

I was able to test this new event functionality this morning and it works great. Excellent job! Without a doubt, this is the most fully featured toast notification UDF for AutoIt specifically for utilizing native toast functionality. There are some other UDFs which create their own toast-like notifications. But using built-in Windows functionality is generally the best way to go. Your UDF already does everything that I personally would ever need as far as toast notifications go. One of the best toast notification apps that I've ever used on Windows 11 is actually from KDE, of all things. Snoretoast (https://github.com/KDE/snoretoast). But I didn't like the idea of having to drop yet another binary on disk for my users. So I will likely switch those apps over to your UDF and keep it all AutoIt. By the way, you can always browse their source code (C++) to see if there is anything that they do that might be beneficial for your UDF. I don't understand some of the more complex parts of toast notification functionality, so I'm not even sure if they have anything extra or not. Cheers (or toast!) 🍷

So maybe i just haven't been looking hard enough, but i could not find how to make toast notifications in win8+ from AutoIt. I looked at it on and off, and finally made some progress. Github repository: https://github.com/genius257/au3toast Zip download: https://github.com/genius257/au3toast/archive/refs/tags/1.0.0.zip Enjoy!

Thanks to @ioa747 for help with the WM_ACTIVATE function, part of this problem is solved. Coordinates are still going to be an issue for different DPI scaling settings which I will try to figure out later. But the issue with the painted line disappearing anytime the GUI loses and/or gains focus is fixed now. For what it's worth, I had my own solution to this earlier but my method made the line flicker which was not great. This WM_ACTIVATE function seems to be much faster and I haven't noticed any flicker at all. #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> #include <WinAPITheme.au3> #include "GUIDarkMode_v0.02mod.au3" #include "ModernMenuRaw.au3" #include <GuiMenu.au3> #include <Array.au3> #include <WinAPIDiag.au3> #include <WinAPIConv.au3> #include <WinAPIGdiDC.au3> ; WA_ACTIVATE constants Global Const $WA_INACTIVE = 0x0000 Global Const $WA_ACTIVE = 0x0001 Global Const $WA_CLICKACTIVE = 0x0002 Global $hGUI ;~ DllCall("User32.dll", "bool", "SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext", "HWND", "DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT" - 4) _SetMenuBkColor(0x202020) _SetMenuIconBkColor(0x202020) _SetMenuIconBkGrdColor(0x202020) _SetMenuSelectBkColor(0x202020) _SetMenuSelectRectColor(0x202020) _SetMenuSelectTextColor(0xFFFFFF) _SetMenuTextColor(0xFFFFFF) Example() Func Example() $hGUI = GUICreate("My GUI", 300, 200) ;Local $idFileMenu = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&File") Local $idFileMenu = _GUICtrlCreateODTopMenu("&File", $hGUI) GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("&Open", $idFileMenu) GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("&Save", $idFileMenu) GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("", $idFileMenu) Local $idOptionsMenu = GUICtrlCreateMenu("O&ptions", $idFileMenu) GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("View", $idOptionsMenu) GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("", $idOptionsMenu) GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Tools", $idOptionsMenu) GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("", $idFileMenu) Local $idExitItem = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("&Exit", $idFileMenu) ;Local $idHelpMenu = GUICtrlCreateMenu("&?") Local $idHelpMenu = _GUICtrlCreateODTopMenu("&?", $hGUI) Local $idAboutItem = GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("&About", $idHelpMenu) Local $idEndBtn = GUICtrlCreateButton("End", 110, 140, 70, 20) Global $hSolidBrush = _WinAPI_CreateBrushIndirect($BS_SOLID, 0xFF00FF) GUIRegisterMsg($WM_NCPAINT, "WM_NCPAINT") GUIRegisterMsg($WM_ACTIVATE, "WM_ACTIVATE_Handler") ;~ GUIRegisterMsg($WM_ERASEBKGND,WM_ERASEBKGND) ;~ GUIRegisterMsg($WM_PAINT,WM_PAINT) ;~ GUIRegisterMsg($WM_DRAWITEM, WM_DRAWITEM2) GuiDarkmodeApply($hGUI) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) ;_drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) Local $idMsg ; Loop until the user exits. While 1 ;Sleep(20) ;If Not WinActive($hGUI) Then _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) ;_drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) $idMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $idMsg Case $idExitItem, $idEndBtn, $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE _WinAPI_DeleteObject($hSolidBrush) ExitLoop Case $idAboutItem MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "About...", "Colored menu sample") EndSwitch WEnd EndFunc ;==>Example Func WM_DRAWITEM2($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) ConsoleWrite("WM_DRAWITEM" & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite("$hwnd=" & $hWnd & @CRLF) ;~ ConsoleWrite("$hDC=" & $wParam & @CRLF) WM_DRAWITEM($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) ;~ _WinAPI_DefSubclassProc($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) ;~ _WinAPI_DefWindowProc($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) ;~ _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hWnd) Return True EndFunc ;==>WM_DRAWITEM2 Func WM_PAINT($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) ConsoleWrite("WM_PAINT" & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite("$hwnd=" & $hWnd & @CRLF) ;~ ConsoleWrite("$hDC=" & $wParam & @CRLF) _WinAPI_DefWindowProc($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hWnd) Return 0 EndFunc ;==>WM_PAINT Func WM_ERASEBKGND($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) ConsoleWrite("WM_ERASEBKGND" & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite("$hwnd=" & $hWnd & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite("$hDC=" & $wParam & @CRLF) ;_WinAPI_DefWindowProc($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hWnd) Return 1 EndFunc ;==>WM_ERASEBKGND Func WM_NCPAINT($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) ConsoleWrite("$hwnd=" & $hWnd & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite("$wParam=" & $wParam & @CRLF) _WinAPI_DefWindowProc($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hWnd) Return 0 EndFunc ;==>WM_NCPAINT Func _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hWnd) $aMenuBarInfo = _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenuBarInfo($hWnd, 0, 1) ;_ArrayDisplay($aMenuBarInfo) $rcClient = _WinAPI_GetClientRect($hWnd) ;_WinAPI_DisplayStruct($rcClient, $tagRECT, "rcClinet before") ;CHAT GPT Local $aCall = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "MapWindowPoints", _ "hwnd", $hWnd, _ ; hWndFrom "hwnd", 0, _ ; hWndTo "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($rcClient), _ "uint", 2) ;number of points - 2 for RECT structure If @error Then ;MsgBox($MB_ICONERROR, "Error", @error) Exit EndIf ;_WinAPI_DisplayStruct($rcClient, $tagRECT, "rcClinet after") $rcWindow = _WinAPI_GetWindowRect($hWnd) _WinAPI_OffsetRect($rcClient, -$rcWindow.left, -$rcWindow.top) $rcAnnoyingLine = DllStructCreate($tagRECT) $rcAnnoyingLine.left = $rcClient.left $rcAnnoyingLine.top = $rcClient.top $rcAnnoyingLine.right = $rcClient.right $rcAnnoyingLine.bottom = $rcClient.bottom ;~ _WinAPI_DisplayStruct($rcAnnoyingLine, $tagRECT) $rcAnnoyingLine.bottom = $rcAnnoyingLine.top $rcAnnoyingLine.top = $rcAnnoyingLine.top - 1 ;~ _WinAPI_DisplayStruct($rcAnnoyingLine, $tagRECT,"annoying line") ;~ $rcAnnoyingLine.left = 0 ;~ $rcAnnoyingLine.top = 0 ;~ $rcAnnoyingLine.right = 100 ;~ $rcAnnoyingLine.bottom = 200 $hRgn=_WinAPI_CreateRectRgn(0,0,1000,500) ;~ $hDC = _WinAPI_GetDC($hWnd) $hDC=_WinAPI_GetDCEx($hWnd,$hRgn, BitOR($DCX_WINDOW,$DCX_INTERSECTRGN)) If $hDC=0 Then ConsoleWrite("hDC=0" & @CRLF) EndIf _WinAPI_FillRect($hDC, $rcAnnoyingLine, $hSolidBrush) _WinAPI_ReleaseDC($hWnd, $hDC) ;_WinAPI_DisplayStruct($rcAnnoyingLine, $tagRECT, "annoying line") EndFunc ;==>_drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine ; ioa747 Func WM_ACTIVATE_Handler($hWnd, $MsgID, $wParam, $lParam) _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) #cs #forceref $MsgID, $wParam, $lParam Switch $WParam Case $WA_INACTIVE ; 0x0000 _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) Case $WA_ACTIVE ; 0x0001 _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) Case $WA_CLICKACTIVE ; 0x0002 _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) Case Else _drawUAHMenuNCBottomLine($hGUI) EndSwitch #ce Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG EndFunc

@ioa747 That is absolutely perfect. The function is fast which I was hoping it would be as well which is a nice bonus. I was not familiar at all with any of the $WA_* values. Your solution was very helpful and I'm also learning a lot from it. Thank you. I appreciate it.

Have sou tried wm_activate?

Check Scale and layout in Display settings, apparently it's not common to all. try putting at the beginning of your script DllCall("user32.dll", "bool", "SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext", "int", -4) ; -4=PerMonitorAwareV2 (the script must run in 32 bit)

#include <ButtonConstants.au3> #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form= Global $HotkeKeyState = 0, $HotkeKeyStateNotification = 0, $HotkeKeyTimer = -1 Gui() Func Gui() $Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 370, 128, 192, 114) $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Enable Hotkey", 121, 37, 113, 40) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) #EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ### While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE GUIDelete ($Form1) Exit Case $Button1 If $HotkeKeyState = 0 Then $HotkeKeyStateNotification = 1 $HotkeKeyTimer = TimerInit() $HotkeKeyState = 1 GUICtrlSetData($Button1, "Disable Hotkey") Else Exit EndIf EndSwitch Notify() WEnd EndFunc ;==>Gui Func Notify() If $HotkeKeyStateNotification = 1 Then If TimerDiff($HotkeKeyTimer) <= 5000 Then $MP = MouseGetPos() ToolTip("Hotkey is enabled", $MP[0] - 30, $MP[1] - 50) Else $HotkeKeyStateNotification = 0 ToolTip("") EndIf EndIf EndFunc ;==>Notify

what can I say? it's like a crossword puzzle, the more you solve, the easier it becomes. You don't have to solve it all, not even if you write a word wrong, because as you solve, you will find it in front of you, and you will correct it

If MsgBox($MB_OKCANCEL, "", $aArray[$i][1] & "...will be copied to the Clipboard....continue...") = $IDCANCEL Then ExitLoop

Hi @genius257, Very cool, I'm not familiar with this stuff, but it looks interesting. You've done a great job implementing it in AutoIt! I tried creating some simple test toasts in XML, but not all the tags work correctly at the moment (for example, the <image> tag doesn't display the image if the "src=" parameter is a URL...). Furthermore, it's mandatory to specify the activationType="background" parameter in the initial <toast...> tag... To generate my test toasts in XML, I installed this app (which also has ready-made templates): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh5xsl1 then, to insert the generated XML code into your example listing in AutoIt, I copy the generated code to the clipboard (select the listing and press Ctrl-C), and immediately run this little script (F5 in SciTE), which adapts it and puts it back in the clipboard. I then paste it into the AutoIt listing. Local $sVarName = "$sToast" Local $aStr = StringSplit(ClipGet(), @CRLF, 1) ; get the clipboard content Local $sListing ; = "Func " & $sFuntionName & "()" & @CRLF $sListing &= 'Local ' & $sVarName & ' = ""' & @CRLF For $i = 1 To $aStr[0] $sListing &= $sVarName & ' &= "' & StringReplace($aStr[$i], '"', '""') & '" ' & @CRLF Next ClipPut($sListing) ConsoleWrite($sListing) This is an example of output (which I later modified a bit) to insert into the example script. Local $sToast = "" $sToast &= "<toast activationType=""background"" launch=""action=viewAlarm&amp;alarmId=3"" scenario=""alarm"">" $sToast &= "" $sToast &= " <visual>" $sToast &= " <binding template=""ToastGeneric"">" $sToast &= " <text>Time to wake up!</text>" $sToast &= " <text>To prove you're awake, select which of the following fruits is yellow...</text>" $sToast &= ' <image placement="appLogoOverride" src="file://' & @TempDir & '\e21cd29c9fb51c3a5b82f009ec33fc997d2edd1ece931e8568f37e205c445778.jpeg" hint-crop="circle"/>' $sToast &= " </binding>" $sToast &= " </visual>" $sToast &= "" $sToast &= " <actions>" $sToast &= "" $sToast &= " <input id=""answer"" type=""selection"" defaultInput=""wrongDefault"">" $sToast &= " <selection id=""wrong"" content=""Orange""/>" $sToast &= " <selection id=""wrongDefault"" content=""Blueberry""/>" $sToast &= " <selection id=""right"" content=""Banana""/>" $sToast &= " <selection id=""wrong"" content=""Avacado""/>" $sToast &= " <selection id=""wrong"" content=""Cherry""/>" $sToast &= " </input>" $sToast &= "" $sToast &= " <action" $sToast &= " activationType=""system""" $sToast &= " arguments=""snooze""" $sToast &= " content=""""/>" $sToast &= "" $sToast &= " <action" $sToast &= " activationType=""background""" $sToast &= " arguments=""dismiss""" $sToast &= " content=""Dismiss""/>" $sToast &= "" $sToast &= " </actions>" $sToast &= ' <audio src=''ms-winsoundevent:Notification.Looping.Alarm'' loop=''false''/>' $sToast &= "</toast>" .. I hope you can implement support for events too... Bye and thanks! P.S. There was a notification "emulator" at this link:: Notifications UDF - Desktop notifications 1.2 (updated Mai 1st) - AutoIt Example Scripts - AutoIt Forums