Notification

###Notification class The Notification class provides a way to create a notification that appears in the notification menu. Each notification has a title, a text description, and an optional callback application and optional icon. If the callback application is provided, then clicking the notification will activate the app.

Notification ( str title, str text, **data )

A list of all current notifications is accessible via state.getNotificationQueue(). The notification menu GUI component is accessible via state.getFunctionBar().notificationMenu.

Data

• source = ( Application or None ) The application from which the notification originated.
• image = ( str or pygame.Surface or None ) The image to display. Either the path to the image, or the Surface, or the "unknown" icon if nothing is provided.
• method onSelected An alternative to source. The method to call when the notification is clicked.
• tuple onSelectedData The data to pass to onSelected when it is called.

Object Variables

• str title The title of the notification.
• str text The text of the notification.
• bool active Whether the notification is active. Inactive notifications are cleared from the menu.
• Application source The app that sent the notification. Can be None.
• GUI.Image image The Image created from the data passed to the constructor.
• onSelectedMethod The method to run when the user clicks the notification. Set to the activate method of source if source is provided and onSelected is not. Otherwise, this is the onSelected method (see Data).
• tuple onSelectedData The data to pass to onSelected when it is run.

Methods

• onSelected () Runs the onSelected method, passing onSelectedData. Also clears the notification.
• clear () Deactivates the notification and sweeps it from the menu.
• getContainer ( c_width=200, c_height=40 ) Creates the container for the notification with the specified height and width. Called by the NotificationMenu class.