Show brief message on screen

[nkormanik]

I use a screen capture program from this site. 

Issue is: Not sure the screen capture actually happened.

Request: Small program to show temporary message on screen.

Time to show message: Around 3 seconds.

Message: Capture successful.

Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Nicholas Kormanik

[mouser]

Screenshot Captor has options to: 1. play sound on capture; 2. show system tray message saying when a capture is made.

[nkormanik]

For some weird reason the balloon never comes up on my system.  Thus the request. (Possibly such messages/notifications are turned off by Windows?)

I want to use the "Invoke" the command (see mouser's screenshot above) to run the tiny program to show message on screen, say, for around three seconds.  Just to make sure.

[mouser]

(Possibly such messages/notifications are turned off by Windows?)

Can you try to bring up the customize dialog for Notification Area (system tray), and tell it to "Show icon and Notifications" for Screenshot Captor).

[nkormanik]

Notifications are on.  Screenshot Captor not listed among those able to 'customize'.

[Deozaan]

Do any notifications work for you? From anything? If not, make sure you don't have Focus Assist enabled, as that will also disable notifications.

I manually toggled it on near the beginning of the year (thinking it would automatically disable after my configured "quiet hours" ended) and forgot about it for months before realizing why I hadn't been seeing any notifications at all on my system during that time.

[nkormanik]

I try to keep off notifications in general.  But of course I want to see Screenshot Captor's....

Or, as stated at outset, a message that capture was successful.

It was wise of mouser to put in the "Invoke" capability.  Terrific option to have available.

[4wd]

FYI and more.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

notice.exe -extract:notice.ps1

[nkormanik]

4wd, is that cool, or what.  You always seem to come up with good solutions.  My man!

Here's another little approach I discovered....

Screenshot Successful.vbs:

WScript.Timeout = 3
x=msgbox("Screenshot Capture Successful!",0,"Great news....")

Place the above two lines into a blank text file.  Rename text file to .vbs extension.

Place full path and filename into mouser's "Invoke..." box.  Apply.  Save.

Presto.

[nkormanik]

4wd, how did you get the .exe file?

[4wd]

FYI

[erikts]

FYI

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[tomos]

^ just search any engine for
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[nkormanik]

You folks have so many good answers, thankful you all are here.

[erikts]

Thanks, Tom. I'll use DuckDuckGo then.