Re: User Message Queue indicator icon on the Windows client

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


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