Request: Integration with Action Center

[gimjun]

Hey man, thanks for making this Display for Growl-for-Windows.
It was super easy to install - just pasted the unzipped folder into the Displays folder of Growl, set it as default, and I was up and running!

Would it be possible to integrate the notifications into Action Center?
(So that, once they slide out of screen, if I miss the notification it'll be waiting for my attention in the Action Center!)

Thanks for your time and effort, and for putting this out for free!

[BobVul]

Thanks for bringing this up.

I did a bit of digging, and, as it turns out, the process for getting notifications to persist from a desktop program is quite complex.

It's a little confusing though - the documentation suggests that notifications should automatically persist even without an "activation"/"action" (click on notification to do something), but in practice this does not seem to be the case - at least with what you've noticed and what other people with other programs experienced.

I will try to get something up when I have time, though it might take a while.

[gimjun]

Thank you for such a quick reply and for looking into what seems like a terribly complicated task!

Man, I have a feeling this is probably more trouble than it's worth, so please don't spend too much time obsessing over making this work :-s

Thanks again for your kind effort, and best wishes!

[BobVul]

I finally got my hands on a Windows 10 machine.

I've tested, and the action center does keep old Toaster messages:

However, I did actually implement support for Growl's CloseAllOpenNotifications and CloseLastNotification handlers, so it's possible (and quite likely) that Growl is sending those.

Are your Growl idle settings currently set to "Never consider me idle or away"?

If you want, I can add an option to ignore commands from Growl to close notifications.

[BobVul]

It's also possible that whatever you have sending the notifications to Growl is doing this.

If you want to try the new option and see if that works for you, grab v0.2a. Let me know how that goes.

[gimjun]

Hey man, thanks for working on this!

I tried out the new version, and it works well as before, but the notifications don't stay in the action center. While a notification is on-screen, if you open the control center, this notif will appear under the GrowlToToast section. But, if you reopen the action center, all notifs are gone :/ (without dismissing). If the notification has already slided-out, then there is no trace in action center.

And yea, I made sure to "Never consider me idle" and tested both new options in the GrowlToToast display.

I'm not sure, but I think it might have to with the fact that Growl does not register as a notifying app in windows settings>notifications.If it were, then you can go into its additional settings where you can select whether you want a sound, silently go to action center without slide-in alert, or disable notifications entirely.

I don't know if this is a brick wall :-s but again thank you so much for working on this!

There are some non-essential notifications for which this display is just perfect, e.g. every time winamp changes song, i see this little native windows slider come in, and it looks Awesome!

[BobVul]

I think I might've gotten it this time. Give v0.2a3 a shot and let me know how it goes.

[gimjun]

This is amazing, it works!! The notifications stay in the Action Center after they slide out or are closed - great work my friend, thank you very much!