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Colin, thanks for the reply. > I presume what you had before was a VB/C++/Delphi app? Well, again, this was part of an emulation package, IIRC. Regardless, I have no idea what the client app was. I might be able to find a VB compiler to use. Can you tell me the basics? TIA, GA --- Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > G, > > this must be possible. > > I have done something similar to this using Java. > > Basically I created a minimal Java client on my PC, that monitored my > message queue on the 400 for messages, and displayed the message in a > text field that gained focus when the message was sent. > > I presume what you had before was a VB/C++/Delphi app? > > cheers > Colin.W > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "G Armour" <garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 4:10 PM > Subject: User Message Queue indicator icon on the Windows client > > > > Hopefully I'm not the only one working this week, so this message > won't > > fall into the void. <g> > > > > I've pondered the following user message queue dilemna. I posted a > long > > ways back on getting notification of a message being sent to the user > > message queue (UMQ) and being able to delete a message from ALL of my > > display sessions. I have, and will continue to have, my UMQ set to > > DLVRY(*Notify); I refuse to have my session interrupted by a break > > message. DLVRY(*Hold), by itself, doesn't work since no session will > > display a notification. > > > > I am almost certain that I had this capability in some form when using > > some third-party emulation software years ago (maybe > > Netsoft-flavor-of-the-month?), say mid-90's. It seemed to me that the > > notification appeared NOT as an indicator at the bottom of the session > > but, rather, some indicator in the Windows system tray. This would > make > > sense, because I could be looking at any session, or even none, and I > > could receive notification in the Windows system tray in the form of a > > flashing icon, bring up any session, display and delete the message - > at > > this stage in my ramblings, I'm guessing that the UMQ was set to > > DLVRY(*Hold), which would allow a message to be deleted from any > session. > > > > For this scenario to work, however, there would have to be a mechanism > by > > which the AS/400 would have to send signals to the client PC; turn > "on" > > the Windows system tray indicator whenever a new message arrived in > the > > UMQ, and turn "off" the Windows system tray indicator whenever the > user > > displays the UMQ (same as the 400 does now for the session having the > UMQ > > allocated with DLVRY(*Notify)). Also, obviously, there must be some > type > > of client side app that listens for these signals and controls the > Windows > > system tray indicator. > > > > We are using IBM's Client Access, um, iSeries Access for Windows V5R2. > I > > know that the Programmer's Toolkit exists, but I have not seen > anything in > > there that addresses what I'm trying to do. OS/400 is at V5R2. > > > > Anybody done this? Or does anyone know that it can or cannot be done? > > > > TIA, GA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
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