On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:41 PM, C.W. Betts wrote:
On Mar 18, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Ken Thomases ken@codeweavers.com wrote:
On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
At this point, though, I'm wondering if it wouldn't just be easier to have Explorer draw the balloons itself à la Windows XP.
Probably. I also considered using an NSPopover anchored to the status item. Again, that's 10.7+ functionality.
We could implement it and do compile- and runtime checks to make sure that the functions aren't called in unsupported OS X versions. However, this would probably add fragmentation, and I doubt Alexandre would be happy with this.
I think he'd be OK with some variant of this. He might not want two implementations, one using NSPopover on 10.7+ and another for 10.6. I don't know how he'd feel about notification balloons only being implemented on 10.7+.
Although I'm not sure how important notification balloons are in the grand scheme of things, anyway. I guess users will let us know if they miss them (unless somebody is inspired to take on that particular corner of unimplemented functionality beforehand).
Cheers, Ken