OS X Desktop Notifications

Solar2D macOS Desktop
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Forgive me - I’m starting a new topic for this in case Rob/Perry didn’t see the updates to the old one…

We’re looking at using Corona SDK for our business app and our only stumbling block is the lack of OS X desktop notifications… but that’s a big deal.  We need to be able to show badge notifications on a Mac dock icon as Skype and Slack do.

Rob previously suggested that we could ask a plugin developer to make this happen, which we’d be happy to do, but talking with Scott Harrison it seems that there would still need to be a change to the Corona core for this to happen.

Is that a possibility?

Tom

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Like Perry likes to say “It’s software. Anything is possible”. But the reality is we have a lot of things to work on. This isn’t an easy item to add and our team is busy with things that are in higher demand.

This starts with a feature request posted at http://feedback.coronalabs.com and get some votes on it. 

Rob

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OK, that’s what I wanted to get a sense of.  We’d be happy to pay a plugin developer to implement something, but it’s correct to say that they couldn’t do this until you’d made a change in the core?

Tom

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That’s based on Scott’s assessment. But until I have a feature request, I can’t get engineering to look at it.

Rob

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Right - will raise that.  Many thanks Rob

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This is probably not what you need, but you can fire local notifications on MacOS via applescript like this:

local function showNotification( title, subtitle, message, sound )          local sound = sound or "Alert"     local script = [[osascript -e "display notification \"]] .. message .. [[\" with title \"]] ..title.. [[\" subtitle \"]] .. subtitle .. [[\" sound name \"]] .. sound .. [[\""]]          os.execute(script) end timer.performWithDelay( 3000, function()     showNotification("Notification Title", "Some subtitle", "Here is a notification message...") end )
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Thanks very much ojnab

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Like Perry likes to say “It’s software. Anything is possible”. But the reality is we have a lot of things to work on. This isn’t an easy item to add and our team is busy with things that are in higher demand.

This starts with a feature request posted at http://feedback.coronalabs.com and get some votes on it. 

Rob

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OK, that’s what I wanted to get a sense of.  We’d be happy to pay a plugin developer to implement something, but it’s correct to say that they couldn’t do this until you’d made a change in the core?

Tom

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That’s based on Scott’s assessment. But until I have a feature request, I can’t get engineering to look at it.

Rob

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Right - will raise that.  Many thanks Rob

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This is probably not what you need, but you can fire local notifications on MacOS via applescript like this:

local function showNotification( title, subtitle, message, sound )          local sound = sound or "Alert"     local script = [[osascript -e "display notification \"]] .. message .. [[\" with title \"]] ..title.. [[\" subtitle \"]] .. subtitle .. [[\" sound name \"]] .. sound .. [[\""]]          os.execute(script) end timer.performWithDelay( 3000, function()     showNotification("Notification Title", "Some subtitle", "Here is a notification message...") end )
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Thanks very much ojnab