Telling the OS that the VM wants focus

> Many things come to mind, one is to use some of the old text to voice features of squeak and have the computer yell at you when it's ready...  That should work on all platforms that support sound.
>
> More subtle and complex would be to use Alien/FFI and talk to the operating system's notification/alert API.
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> On 2010-08-03, at 12:51 AM, Max Leske wrote:
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>> Hi folks
>>
>> The project I'm currently working on requires that I have to wait frequently for computations / operations to complete. To control the status I used progress bars wherever possible. Now, since the operations might take several minutes I like to sometimes switch to another Desktop, maybe read an e-mail or an article.
>> I'd find it rather useful if the OS would notify me that the VM needs my attention as soon as the operations have completed or if there was an error during execution, so that I don't have to go and check every 30 seconds. Is there an existing way to do this? If not, I'd like to propose this as a feature for a future release (although I don't have an inkling how one would accomplish this...).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Max
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> Ok, thanks.
> Would be nice if at some point in the future unhandled exceptions would notify the OS automatically (for instance).
>
>
> On 04.08.2010, at 00:34, John M McIntosh wrote:
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>> Many things come to mind, one is to use some of the old text to voice features of squeak and have the computer yell at you when it's ready...  That should work on all platforms that support sound.
>>
>> More subtle and complex would be to use Alien/FFI and talk to the operating system's notification/alert API.
>>
>> On 2010-08-03, at 12:51 AM, Max Leske wrote:
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>>> Hi folks
>>>
>>> The project I'm currently working on requires that I have to wait frequently for computations / operations to complete. To control the status I used progress bars wherever possible. Now, since the operations might take several minutes I like to sometimes switch to another Desktop, maybe read an e-mail or an article.
>>> I'd find it rather useful if the OS would notify me that the VM needs my attention as soon as the operations have completed or if there was an error during execution, so that I don't have to go and check every 30 seconds. Is there an existing way to do this? If not, I'd like to propose this as a feature for a future release (although I don't have an inkling how one would accomplish this...).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Max
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pharo-project mailing list
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
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> why not growl events?
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> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Max Leske wrote:
>
>> Ok, thanks.
>> Would be nice if at some point in the future unhandled exceptions would notify the OS automatically (for instance).
>>
>>
>> On 04.08.2010, at 00:34, John M McIntosh wrote:
>>
>>> Many things come to mind, one is to use some of the old text to voice features of squeak and have the computer yell at you when it's ready...  That should work on all platforms that support sound.
>>>
>>> More subtle and complex would be to use Alien/FFI and talk to the operating system's notification/alert API.
>>>
>>> On 2010-08-03, at 12:51 AM, Max Leske wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks
>>>>
>>>> The project I'm currently working on requires that I have to wait frequently for computations / operations to complete. To control the status I used progress bars wherever possible. Now, since the operations might take several minutes I like to sometimes switch to another Desktop, maybe read an e-mail or an article.
>>>> I'd find it rather useful if the OS would notify me that the VM needs my attention as soon as the operations have completed or if there was an error during execution, so that I don't have to go and check every 30 seconds. Is there an existing way to do this? If not, I'd like to propose this as a feature for a future release (although I don't have an inkling how one would accomplish this...).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Max
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Pharo-project mailing list
>>>> [hidden email]
>>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
>>>
>>> --
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> On 04.08.2010, at 11:55, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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>> why not growl events?
>>
>> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Max Leske wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, thanks.
>>> Would be nice if at some point in the future unhandled exceptions would notify the OS automatically (for instance).
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04.08.2010, at 00:34, John M McIntosh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Many things come to mind, one is to use some of the old text to voice features of squeak and have the computer yell at you when it's ready...  That should work on all platforms that support sound.
>>>>
>>>> More subtle and complex would be to use Alien/FFI and talk to the operating system's notification/alert API.
>>>>
>>>> On 2010-08-03, at 12:51 AM, Max Leske wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi folks
>>>>>
>>>>> The project I'm currently working on requires that I have to wait frequently for computations / operations to complete. To control the status I used progress bars wherever possible. Now, since the operations might take several minutes I like to sometimes switch to another Desktop, maybe read an e-mail or an article.
>>>>> I'd find it rather useful if the OS would notify me that the VM needs my attention as soon as the operations have completed or if there was an error during execution, so that I don't have to go and check every 30 seconds. Is there an existing way to do this? If not, I'd like to propose this as a feature for a future release (although I don't have an inkling how one would accomplish this...).
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Max
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>>>>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
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> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Max Leske wrote:
>
> > Ok, thanks.
> > Would be nice if at some point in the future unhandled exceptions would notify the OS automatically (for instance).
> >
> >
> > On 04.08.2010, at 00:34, John M McIntosh wrote:
> >
> >> Many things come to mind, one is to use some of the old text to voice features of squeak and have the computer yell at you when it's ready...  That should work on all platforms that support sound.
> >>
> >> More subtle and complex would be to use Alien/FFI and talk to the operating system's notification/alert API.
> >>
> >> On 2010-08-03, at 12:51 AM, Max Leske wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi folks
> >>>
> >>> The project I'm currently working on requires that I have to wait frequently for computations / operations to complete. To control the status I used progress bars wherever possible. Now, since the operations might take several minutes I like to sometimes switch to another Desktop, maybe read an e-mail or an article.
> >>> I'd find it rather useful if the OS would notify me that the VM needs my attention as soon as the operations have completed or if there was an error during execution, so that I don't have to go and check every 30 seconds. Is there an existing way to do this? If not, I'd like to propose this as a feature for a future release (although I don't have an inkling how one would accomplish this...).
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Max
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> >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
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