FR: Allow messagebox to show a message box that times out after x ms
Gitoffthelawn opened this issue · comments
It would be great to enhance messagebox "text" : "title" to allow showing a message box with a custom title and have a timeout (close itself) after x ms. This way, the user won't be forced to always interact with the message box.
Thanks again for NppExec!
This might be implemented using the technique mentioned here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3091300/messagebox-with-timeout-or-closing-a-messagebox-from-another-thread
Actually it is described here:
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7914/MessageBoxTimeout-API
I'll think about it.
Thanks! Here are 2 additional techniques that maybe could help you implement this functionality. I'm not sure, so I'll just mention them briefly:
- Use a system notification.
- Do something like PowerShell does. Foe example, in PowerShell,
Shell.Popup("d0vgan", 1, "Title", 4096);will display a popup with the titleTitleand your username in the body. It will then close itself after 1 second if the user doesn't click on theOKbutton.
Wonderful! Thanks! You wouldn't believe the workaround I've been using... I actually have been using nppExec to push data to another application that then displays a notification (using the pushed data) that times out after 750ms. LOL.
It will be great to have this native within nppExec, and I look forward to deleting my workaround.
Thank you very much!