Simple popup display message?

[therealbiglou]

I have Tasker on my Android device sending EventGhost the body of text messages to the webserver plugin via HTTP GET. I was wondering if there was an Event ghost plugin that could display this event name (the text body) in a simple popup box.

If anyone knows how to do this, I would be over appreciative!

[jonib]

I use the EventGhost\Show OSD action to display some texts from events, like new email, it's not an popup box more of a popup text.

jonib

[therealbiglou]

How would I go about including the text from an event in Show OSD?

For instance, the event from a recent text is named: "HTTP.ESPN NHL - LOS Goal 8:00 OT - LOS 3 STL 2 - Goal scored by Slava Voynov(Wristshot 29 ft) assisted by Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams []" and I would like everything after the HTTP. prefix to be displayed.

Is there a way to make variables from an event and then use that variable name in Show OSD?

[therealbiglou]

Additionally, I'm testing out Show OSD with a test message and it does not appear on top of Windows Media Center in full screen. Is there a way I can force that?

[jonib]

How would I go about including the text from an event in Show OSD?

For instance, the event from a recent text is named: "HTTP.ESPN NHL - LOS Goal 8:00 OT - LOS 3 STL 2 - Goal scored by Slava Voynov(Wristshot 29 ft) assisted by Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams []" and I would like everything after the HTTP. prefix to be displayed.

Is there a way to make variables from an event and then use that variable name in Show OSD?

Sure just put one(or several) of the examples below in the text field.
Use {eg.event.suffix} to get the last part of the event string (after the first dot).
Use {eg.event.payload} to get the content of the event.
There are some more options here.

Additionally, I'm testing out Show OSD with a test message and it does not appear on top of Windows Media Center in full screen. Is there a way I can force that?

I don't know how WMC creates its fullscreen window, but some programs mostly games use a special way to create the window and need special code to show text or graphics from a external program. And I'm not sure EventGhost has anything like that.

Edit: For WMC there might be a way to send the message as a notification? I know XBMC has that, don't know anything about WMC.

jonib

[therealbiglou]

Thanks for your help. Everything is working great. However, after further reasearch, it looks like it will be impossible to push these messages in front of a full screen WMC.

It looks like my fun little pet project has come to an end.

[jonib]

Thanks for your help. Everything is working great. However, after further reasearch, it looks like it will be impossible to push these messages in front of a full screen WMC.

I did a quick search and found this New Plugin - MC Message pop-up maybe it could work?

It looks like my fun little pet project has come to an end.

Only if you give up.

jonib

[therealbiglou]

Well, I guess I haven't given up... but the internet isn't making it very easy on me. It turns out that the forum administrator had removed and disabled all downloads... and that's after I discovered another developer actually turned that script into an EG plugin!!!

I was able to track down the developer and am awaiting a reply on whether he still has the plugin for me to use.

[krambriw]

You could try something like this with a macro and a python script:

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from win32gui import MessageBox

eg.event.suffix_copy = eg.event.suffix
eg.event.payload_copy = eg.event.payload

MessageBox(0, eg.event.payload_copy , eg.event.suffix_copy, 0)

Then drag & drop the event in the macro you would like to display in the message box

[therealbiglou]

Unfortunately, this will not display messages on top of a full-screen WMC.

[w84no1]

You can do it without EG. When I was using MCE, I used http://vmccontroller.codeplex.com/. It creates a webserver and you can use a browser to connect and control your Media Center.

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http://mcecomputer:40510/msgbox "caption" "message" <timeout seconds>

I was using it to display caller id info when someone called my google voice number.