Local notifications on Windows Desktop

Hi,

Our players told us that it would be very useful for them if our game would send local notifications (like Skype does - if it is minimised and someone contacts with us, we have small pop-up in bottom corner of screen).

I found many packages allowing for doing so on iOS, Android, even Windows Store - but we need it in plain Desktop Windows game - we intend to distribute it using Steam, now we just send exe installer to everyone.

I am programmer and I am not afraid of C# reflection and using Windows dll files when necessary. But I do not have idea where to start digging. Asset store was not very helpful, google aren't either.

If you could help in any way, I would highly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Kris

 

Creating dll library with function:
public static void ShowNotification(){
var item = new NotifyIcon { Visible = true, Icon = System.Drawing.SystemIcons.Information };
item.ShowBalloonTip(3000, "Balloon title", "Balloon text", ToolTipIcon.Info);
}
solves problem in Editor, but during compilation raises:
ArgumentException: The Assembly System.Windows.Forms is referenced by NotificationsLibrary ('Assets/NotificationsLibrary.dll'). But the dll is not allowed to be included or could not be found.

Do anyone knows how I can solve it without including dozens of dlls?

 

Did this question ever get resolved? I'm interested in doing local, scheduled notifications on desktop as well.

 

yep me too, somebody help

 

Still seeking answer in 2021

 

+1

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...s-and-notifications/send-local-toast?tabs=uwp

 

I have wasted too many days trying tirelessly in vain to get this to work. If anyone gets this to work, please post a very simple repo of it.

I am still hoping for an answer to this question.

 

win10 might have toasts disabled by default, check: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41830869

after that setting, this sample code works in visual studio c# app,
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...s-and-notifications/send-local-toast?tabs=uwp

if that doesn't work inside unity, could make separate console application that you can call to send notifications..(if not other solution..)