Demonstration of Windows notifications and badges

[jorgon]

The Email Client I am writing in GoAsm needs to give notifications and attach badges to the taskbar icon, for example when emails are received and are unread. 

So I created a demo to test what was available.

The attached demo starts with the ubiquitous MessageBox, then offers two types of popup notification - one which slides in from the bottom right hand side using timed paint functions, and another which uses a tracked tooltip.  For the badges, the demo offers Shell_NotifyIcon which puts an icon in the status area of the taskbar and the COM function SetOverlayIcon which overlays the application's taskbar icon. 

Finally the demo makes a good attempt at using the Windows Runtime Badge Notification interfaces to attach a badge or glyph to the taskbar icon. Unfortunately I then discovered that these interfaces do not work in an ordinary "Desktop app".  But at least the sample code in the demo shows that it is possible to code Windows Runtime in assembler.

[Biterider]

Hi jorgon
Thanks – it will definitely be useful for me 

Biterider

[Biterider]

Hi jorgon
Here is some brief feedback.
I tried the application on Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2 and all the options worked except F5 and F6.
Perhaps I'm missing something?

Biterider

[rsala]

Hi Jeremy,

I tried your application on Windows 11 Pro 24H2 and all the options worked except F5 and F6.

Regards!

[jj2007]

Win10: no luck with F5+F6, what does "try to show balloon" mean? I don't see any balloon...