how to show an alert message using swt?

Question

I have an swt application and I want to show some alert message on any event. If user has minimized the application then also I want to show some alert at the bottom of the screen no matter what application/browser the user is looking at that time. What is the best way to do it in swt?

Answer 1

There are a couple of tutorials/libraries for notifications:

• Creating a Notification Popup Widget creates a popup notification from scratch:

  

• Notifier from Opal is a "ready-to-go" implementation of a notification system (including support for themes and HTML content):