Notify the user, without sound

[woef22]

Hello everybody,

In response to an article, 7 years old, I now have this question..

Previously, in my projects, I used a standard form with
a text, (for example: "price adjusted by reinier").
The form then closed again by a timer.
Incredibly annoying.

Now I recently saw an article that makes it possible to
send a notify to the user, the same notify when you
receive an email. (thank you Isladogs!!!!!!!!!!!)

This is already a huge improvement, especially because the user
can continue working, without having to wait until the notification
is gone. So it works like a stream.

The only disadvantage is that there is still sound,
and still is annoying.
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I actually have 2 questions:
1) Is it possible to adjust the notification with code (API calls)
so that there is no sound.
2) How do you people handle that, if you want to sent info to the user?
(maybe sending info in the menubar, on the bottom????)
(maybe with an .dll made in VB.NET???)


In the attachment I send the notification, which I have stripped down as much as possible,
I have marked the stripped down code as text (green).

 

[Mark_]

Can you copy the "stripped down code" and post it here in a code block?

For myself, the most useful "Notification" system I had was done about 30 years ago. Part of the screen is reserved for "Messages". When a message is entered (text file dropped in correct directory) the system would change the colour of the message area and then show the text from the file as a scrolling marquee. This would stay up until either the text file was removed OR the end user hit an "Acknowledge" button (depending on the name of the text file).

You could do the same in Access by having a "Message" table that includes your text, colour, importance, and start/end date and time. You would use Mid() to change the starting point on your message to get it to "Scroll" like a marquee.

Most users not movement as well as a change in colour when looking at the screen. Tends to work better than "Beep".

If this is simply to notify of a status change, you could even have the same scroll once to let them know.
You would want to look at Form.TimerInterval and the Event_Timer for how to start/stop your display, set how fast is scrolls, and where you put your display code.

 

[woef22]

Hey Mark,

Thank you for your input,
That is indeed a good idea to make a small space at the bottom of the form,
this is a way to mimic the menu bar from windows.
No to distracting, no souds, just visual.