[ANN] Alert.jl - Simple desktop notifications

haberdashPI · May 28, 2020, 5:44pm

Hi all,

I created a very small, simple package (Alert) for getting a desktop notification (a.k.a. “toast”) across platforms. Like so:

using Alert

for i in 1:10_000
    long_running_function()
end

alert("Your julia script is finished!")

I find it helpful when I’m running something time consuming and want to know when it’s finished while doing other work.

I’ve tested it on MacOS and Windows 10, but I don’t have a linux system handy, so if someone could try it out and confirm that it pops up a notification of some sort, that would be really helpful.

Hope it’s useful to folks!

dunefox · May 28, 2020, 6:07pm

On Linux:

(@v1.4) pkg> add Alert
Updating registry at ~/.julia/registries/General
Updating git-repo https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git
ERROR: The following package names could not be resolved:

Alert (not found in project, manifest or registry)

When cloned and ran I get the following:


julia> include("src/Alert.jl")
Main.Alert

julia> Alert.alert("as")
Process(`notify-send as`, ProcessExited(0))

and Ubuntu displays a notification at the top (as I just noticed). Seems to work as intended.

kevinczimmerman · May 28, 2020, 6:10pm

pkg> add https://github.com/haberdashPI/Alert.jl

dunefox · May 28, 2020, 6:13pm

Right, I didn’t think of that, thanks.

anon92994695 · May 28, 2020, 6:15pm

Great idea!!!

asinghvi17 · May 30, 2020, 7:11am

Lovely package! Works perfectly on my MacOS machine.

cc @yakir12 - this was something you were looking for earlier, I think…

yakir12 · May 30, 2020, 5:37pm

Thanks! Right you are !

e3c6 · May 30, 2020, 6:53pm

Thanks! Will you register it?

haberdashPI · May 30, 2020, 7:33pm

Already, registered! Just waiting for the auto megre delay (3 days).

xiaodai · August 20, 2020, 2:07am

Doesn’t work from within VSCode on Windows.

haberdashPI · August 20, 2020, 4:15am

Hi @xiadoai; can you give me some more details? I am not having any problem running it on Windows 10 on my machine. Do you get any error message? Your windows version? (I am also running it from within VSCode; that shouldn’t matter though).

xiaodai · August 20, 2020, 4:23am

I just get this in the REPL but no notification

Process(`powershell.exe -Enc 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`, ProcessExited(0))

haberdashPI · August 20, 2020, 11:13am

Does Julia hang or does the command complete? What version of windows?

xiaodai · August 20, 2020, 11:20am

Finished. Wondows 10 pro

haberdashPI · August 20, 2020, 1:10pm

Do you have notifications turned on? I just saw that the Julia command returns with ProcessExited(0) in the output you posted. That means that there was no error in running the power shell script (so as far as Julia can tell the command worked). Under the OS settings you should see something like the following:

That’s the only explanation I can currently think of for why you aren’t seeing anything. If that isn’t the problem, if you could give me some more details about exactly what you’re doing that would be really helpful.

xiaodai · August 20, 2020, 1:16pm

you are right. i have it turned off

danielw2904 · August 20, 2020, 2:22pm

alert

haberdashPI · August 31, 2020, 4:00pm

For those interested, I have now also created a small extension to Alert called AlertPushover: it allows you to get notifications on your phone or browser from a remote Julia session.