Detecting Windows notification

[pekster]

I'm aiming to detect when a window tries to notify me (when a program flashes itself in the taskbar to call your attention to it.) I figured I could do some fancy pixel checking, but that isn't consistant for different themes or taskbar layouts, which makes it a poor solution.

Is there another solution, or is pixel checking as close as I can get?

[Guest Guest]

Do You know you can change that behavoir of Windows?

You can make Windows to instantly give the focus to the flashing application window.

SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, 0, (LPVOID)0, SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE | SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wi...roundwindow.asp

[pekster]

Interesting, but I think that would get annoying very fast, especially since I do a lot of typing, so having windows stealing focus would interfere with that. The reason I'm trying to script this is that I use virtual desktops, and a taskbar replacement. I really like my new taskbar, but it doesn't flash like the original did. Prehaps I should hunt for a new one that does, but I figured if I could script a way to detect it, I could use a traytip or tooltip to notify me.