Re: xchat notify utility (flashapplet)

["Henrik Høy Karlsen" <henrik_karlsen@hotmail.com>]

Hi !

Thanks for your thougts on how to improve flashapplet. Right now there's a 
single icon for all the channels you wish to monitor. You choose which 
colors you want to flash when there's activity. You can choose the colors 
per channel. Since this is implemented as a "panel applet" the flashapplet 
will be visible on all your desktops (which we think is a feature).

The configuration file has an entry called "duration". When there's activity 
on a channel the applet starts flashing. It will continue to flash until the 
mouse or keyboard has been moved/pressed. When this happens it will continue 
to flash "duration" times.

Actually FlashApplet is not integrated with xchat. It simply monitors the 
file(s) you specify in the config file. If you want to use it in conjunction 
with xchat you enable logging and let FlashApplet monitor the logfiles. This 
means that FlashApplet has a number of uses where flashing in xchat is just 
one.

If you want "nick-flash" you make a plugin/script for xchat that writes a 
single line to a file when your nick is said in a channel. Then you specify 
the file in the FlashApplet config file. I've heard this has been done in 
other IRC clients but I havent heard of this script in xchat ?

This page describes how to setup xchat and FlashApplet. In the bottom of the 
page there's a animation of the FlashApplet:

http://flashapplet.sourceforge.net/xchat.html

/Henrik


>
>On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:54, Bret McMillan wrote:
>
> > Yup.  I played with this a little while back, haven't had time to mess
> > with it much, but I took a look at what the rhn-applet package did in 
>RHL
> > 8.0 ... the rhn package mainly used python, but just extrapolated from
> > that to use the c functions.  It was pretty trivial to get the image to
> > show up when the nick highlight callback gets run.  Didn't get any 
>farther
> > then the leaky 20 minute hack to do that :)
> >
> > Some thoughts:
> > o  notification per channel, or one global
> > o  a timer on the lifetime of the icon in the system tray?
> > o  switching workspaces to go directly to xchat when clicking on the
> > notification
> >
>
>What I thought, was to always leave an icon in the tray, but change it
>on message.
>
>I'd also say, a single icon.  I leave a limited amount of space for
>system tray stuff.  I join lots of channels.  Smashing my taskbar to add
>channels would be bad.  :-)  I wonder if it would be able to tell if the
>user didn't click, but did acknowledge the highlight by clicking on the
>highlighted tab.
>
>I would also say it should definitely switch workspaces when clicked, so
>that it doesn't pull up on a workspace it shouldn't.
>
>--
>Jon-Pierre Gentil <jgentil@charter.net>


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