<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Maybe it is a good idea to supply a small
executable in the tools directory that will be used for notifying the user?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That way you are not dependent on a
Microsoft ways of notifying users, thus not windows-version dependent.
(except for binary incompatible windows versions :-))</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Something in style of the current WPKGclient
notification, or like WPKGmessage (</font><a href="http://www.gig-mbh.de/edv/software/wpkgtools/wpkg-message-english.htm"><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.gig-mbh.de/edv/software/wpkgtools/wpkg-message-english.htm</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This tool can then give current state
information about the wpkg process, and disappear when the process is done..</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">And you can then also put an option
in that tool so that the user can press a button to let it dissapear into
the systray or so, so it is not in the way of the working user, but the
user is still aware that the process is still running..until that tray
icon disappears. (maybe it is best to have an animated tray icon then).
And the user can check on the current state by clicking on that tray icon
which then displays the tool again..</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">WPKG could then even use that tool to
ask the user questions like, "would you like to reboot now or later?"</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Only a suggestion though :-)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Robin</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>wpkg-users-bounces@lists.wpkg.org wrote on 04.09.2009
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> --- Comment #1 from Rainer Meier <r.meier@wpkg.org> 2009-09-04
15:55:10 ---<br>
> Yes I know. This is true for Windows 7 too. Personally I don't like
<br>
> this way of<br>
> user notification too much (never use it personally). WPKG Client
is supposed<br>
> to inform the user in much more details about the currently ongoing
activity.<br>
> However also this does not work any more on Windoes Vista/7.<br>
> <br>
> Currently you might use the pre-/post-execution feature of WPKG client
to<br>
> notify users or change wpkg.js to use "msg" instead of "net
send". In any case<br>
> this way of notifying users is extremely limited and annoying in most
cases.<br>
> The dialog box cannot be "cancelled" by WPKG so it stays
there until the user<br>
> closes it. They also queue up and there is no possibility to overwrite<br>
> displayed messages. So if the user is not at his desk he will find
a message<br>
> that WPKG starts updating, then he clicks OK and immediately has to
close<br>
> another message that WPKG finished.<br>
> <br>
> Alternatively msg offers a "timeout" where the message disappears<br>
> automatically. But if the user does not read the message while <br>
> displayed (let's<br>
> say for 10 seconds...) he will not know that something is going on.<br>
> <br>
> Moreover this messages do not prevent the user to use the machine
- <br>
> so it's not<br>
> much more safe than just doing all the work in the background.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> So I am thinking about allowing the administrator to define a <br>
> timeout (or 0, so<br>
> the message stays until the user accepts it) which defaults to 5 <br>
> seconds. After<br>
> that the notification will automatically close. It's just informing
<br>
> the user if<br>
> he's at the desk and looking at the screen and it will anyway not
prevent the<br>
> user to perform any action.<br>
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