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winrt-notification

An incomplete wrapper over the WinRT toast api

15 unstable releases (4 breaking)

0.5.1 Jan 11, 2022
0.5.0 Nov 3, 2021
0.4.0 Oct 5, 2021
0.3.1 Apr 10, 2021
0.1.5 Nov 20, 2017

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winrt-notification

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An incomplete wrapper over the WinRT toast api

Tested in Windows 10 and 8.1. Untested in Windows 8, might work.

0.5 Documentation

0.2 Documentation

Todo:

  • Add support for Adaptive Content
  • Add support for Actions

Known Issues:

  • Will not work for Windows 7.

Limitations:

  • Windows 8.1 only supports a single image, the last image (icon, hero, image) will be the one on the toast

Usage

#Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
winrt-notification = "0.5.1"

Examples

extern crate winrt_notification;
use winrt_notification::{Duration, Sound, Toast};

fn main() {
    Toast::new(Toast::POWERSHELL_APP_ID)
        .title("Look at this flip!")
        .text1("(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻")
        .sound(Some(Sound::SMS))
        .duration(Duration::Short)
        .show()
        .expect("unable to toast");
}
extern crate winrt_notification;
use std::path::Path;
use winrt_notification::{IconCrop, Toast};

fn main() {
    Toast::new("Your AppUserModeId")
        .hero(&Path::new("C:\\absolute\\path\\to\\image.jpeg"), "alt text")
        .icon(
            &Path::new("c:/this/style/works/too/image.png"),
            IconCrop::Circular,
            "alt text",
        )
        .title("Lots of pictures here")
        .text1("One above the text as the hero")
        .text2("One to the left as an icon, and several below")
        .image(&Path::new("c:/photos/sun.png"), "the sun")
        .image(&Path::new("c:/photos/moon.png"), "the moon")
        .sound(None) // will be silent
        .show()
        .expect("unable to toast");
}

Dependencies

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