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Notify

Inherits Reference / Object

Notify is a Crystal library for Desktop Notifications compatible notification systems. It uses DBus internally to connect to the user's notification daemon.

Constants

VERSION = "0.1.0"

Constructors

new

Creates a new instance of Notify.

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Instance methods

capabilities

An array of strings indicating the capabilities of this notification daemon.

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capability?(feature : String)

Checks whether the user's notification daemon supports feature.

The list of currently standardized features can be found here: http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x408.html#command-get-capabilities

n.capability?("body") # => true

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close(id : UInt32)

Closes the open notification whose identifier is id, or does nothing if that notification is already closed.

n.close(1337)

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information

An array of strings indicating the version and vendor of this notification daemon.

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notify(summary, app_name = "", replaces_id = 0_u32, app_icon = "", body = "", actions = [] of String, hints = {} of String => DBus::Variant, expire_timeout = -1)

Creates a new notification. summary is the only required parameter.

See http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x408.html#command-notify for information on optional parameters.

Returns a notification ID that can be used with close or as replaces_id in subsequent calls to notify.

n.notify "hello", body: "<b>world!</b>" # => 1337

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