Re: User Message Queue indicator icon on the Windows client

["Colin Williams" <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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