Add notifcation/splash screen to show whats happenig after screenshot selection

[dynobo]

E.g.:

• "Detecting text..." -> "Parsing email.." -> "Trigger action..."
• Preferably icons only, no text

[ashishpatel1992]

Hi @dynobo
I have worked on a feature that pushes a notification on Windows that text is copied to clipboard
Here is sample notification. Although I would like you to suggest me the title.
(In this example for the title I have chosen to display noarmcap - Text Captured
below that, I have shown part of the text copied in a single line and also handled the case when no text is detected)

When no text is present to be copied

I think it really looks nice informing that content is copied to their clipboard.
So I have two ideas for the copied text in the notification:

1. Show the partial copied text
2. Inform the user top use CTRL+V to paste the text

Let me know your thoughts on this. If the text seems fine to you I can send you a merge request.

[dynobo]

Thanks for your proposal @ashishpatel1992. I like your idea to use the systems notification system for displaying this information! I'll do some research, if I can find a cross-platform python package that can provide this functionality. :-)

[ashishpatel1992]

Hi,
The current notification displayed is having the wrong application name Python Application (notify.py)

I am sending you a merge request with application name and version.

[dynobo]

Thanks, @ashishpatel1992 !

One question: I'm hesitating to publish 0.1.6 as release, because I discovered an issue on Windows: Shortly before the notification appears, a Powershell-Window pops up for a very short moment. This happens only for the compiled .exe, not when running as Python package.
Do you experience the same issue? (Execute python build.py to generate the .exe, then start .\dist\normcap-v0.1.6.exe)

I think it's an upstream issue with notify-py which leverages a powershell command under the hood. I'm already investigating...

[ashishpatel1992]

Hi @dynobo ,
I haven't reached till that step yet. Stuck with the binary generated.
Although successfully able to compile it. Log here: https://pastebin.com/MHXsQ7RY
The compiled binary was giving me the error:

So, I have manually placed python38.dll to rectify the issue.
But now there is another error pyi_rth__tkinter

I am not sure how I can fix this. Do you have any idea about this?

[dynobo]

Hi @ashishpatel1992,
Is your python version 3.8? I think pyinstaller doesn't yet support this... Could you try with 3.7.x?
Also make sure you are running the .exe in the dist/ folder, not in the build/ folder (this confused me in the beginning. It throws a similar error.)

In the meanwhile I filed an PR for the notification Package: ms7m/notify-py#18
We'll see if/when it get's accepted :-)

[dynobo]

Solve with release v0.1.6.
Thanks for you input, @ashishpatel1992 !

[ashishpatel1992]

Glad to know that issue is fixed. 🥇