This project uses the Windows PowerShell module [[https://github.com/Windos/BurntToast][Burnt-Toast]] to create notifications from ERC in the Windows 10 Notifications Center.
If you have enabled contact pinning and created a contact matching "ERC@ema.cs" (or whatever you've customized ~erc-burnt-toast-person~ to be) and pinned it to the task bar you can also get an animated notification (customized by placing a file path or URL in ~erc-burnt-toast-image~) from the start-menu unless an application is currently full-screen.
This is early alpha software. I'm currently using it but haven't tested much outside my own use-case (ERC+ercn). Thanks in advance for any issues you trouble to report.
Install and configure the [[https://github.com/Windos/BurntToast][Burnt-Toast]] module for Windows PowerShell before using this package.
You should then be able to place erc-burnt-toast somewhere on your ~load-path~ and use as such:
(eval-after-load 'erc-match (progn (require 'erc-burnt-toast) (erc-burnt-toast-mode 1)))
If you use ercn try something like this, instead:
(eval-after-load 'ercn (progn (require 'erc-burnt-toast) (add-hook 'ercn-notify-hook (lambda (nickname message) (erc-burnt-toast-command "ERC@ema.cs" nickname message)))))
It is also possible to invoke erc-burnt-toast-command interactively or from Emacs Lisp code unrelated to ERC/IRC.
(erc-burnt-toast-command "person@is.an.email.address" "title string" "message string")
If the value given for ~person~ matches the Emacs address of a contact pinned to the Windows task-bar display ~erc-burnt-toast-image~ floating over the desktop. Otherwise, and in any case, toast is sent to the Windows 10 Notification center with ~title~ shown in bold above ~message~.
You can control the value used for ~person~ for ~erc~ generated notifications by customizing ~erc-burnt-toast-person~.
Some features may also potentially disabled from the Windows 10 Notification Center Preference Control Panel; be sure to double check those settings first if are having trouble.
The alpha version leaves in place version debugging including a dump of the PowerShell command used. The commands echoed to Messages are suitable for use in cmd.exe however it should be simple to extract the embedded PowerShell command for debugging purposes. Please make sure you can successfully issue Burnt-Toast notifications from PowerShell before opening issues.
Thanks to bandali (the ERC maintainer for [[https://www.gnu.org/software/Emacs][GNU Emacs]]) and a host of others on EFNet #ERC and #Emacs for support in creating and troubleshooting. Thanks also to Xah Lee for [[http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_zap_gremlins.html][his excellent website]], and to everybody who works on the [[https://www.emacswiki.org/][EmacsWiki]]. I learned a great deal from [[https://github.com/alphapapa/emacs-package-dev-handbook#template][emacs-package-dev-handbook]] as well as from the documentation and sources of Joshua King's [[https://github.com/Windos/BurntToast][Burnt-Toast]] module for Windows PowerShell, on which this program relies.
I welcome patches and github issues including those which offer suggestions, questions and commentary.
Your beautiful. Thanks.