Alert boxes in Python?

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Is it possible to produce an alert similar to JavaScript's alert("message") in python, with an application running as a daemon.

This will be run in Windows, Most likely XP but 2000 and Vista are also very real possibilities.

Update:
This is intended to run in the background and alert the user when certain conditions are met, I figure that the easiest way to alert the user would be to produce a pop-up, as it needs to be handled immediately, and other options such as just logging, or sending an email are not efficient enough.

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6 Answers

what about this:

import win32api

win32api.MessageBox(0, 'hello', 'title')

Additionally:

win32api.MessageBox(0, 'hello', 'title', 0x00001000)

will make the box appear on top of other windows, for urgent messages. See MessageBox function for other options.

Admin1

For those of us looking for a purely Python option that doesn't interface with Windows and is platform independent, I went for the option listed on the following website:

https://pythonspot.com/tk-message-box/ (archived link: https://archive.ph/JNuvx)

# Python 3.x code
# Imports
import tkinter
from tkinter import messagebox

# This code is to hide the main tkinter window
root = tkinter.Tk()
root.withdraw()

# Message Box
messagebox.showinfo("Title", "Message")

You can choose to show various types of messagebox options for different scenarios:

  • showinfo()
  • showwarning()
  • showerror ()
  • askquestion()
  • askokcancel()
  • askyesno ()
  • askretrycancel ()

edited code per my comment below

user_119946010

You can use PyAutoGui to make alert boxes First install pyautogui with pip:

pip install pyautogui

Then type this in python:

import pyautogui as pag
pag.alert(text="Hello World", title="The Hello World Box")

Here are more message boxes, stolen from Javascript:

  • confirm()
    With Ok and Cancel Button
  • prompt()
    With Text Input
  • password() With Text Input, but typed characters will be appeared as *
user_132389360

Start an app as a background process that either has a TCP port bound to localhost, or communicates through a file -- your daemon has the file open, and then you echo "foo" > c:\your\file. After, say, 1 second of no activity, you display the message and truncate the file.

Mikael_Jansson_187530
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