"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1999 by eXept Software AG

              All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

"{ Package: 'stx:libbasic' }"

Exception subclass:#UserNotification

	instanceVariableNames:''

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'Kernel-Exceptions'

!

!UserNotification class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1999 by eXept Software AG

              All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"    

    UserNotification is the superclass of all user notification 

    exceptions in the system. It produces an info box with the message

    on the screen. If no display is available, the message is written 

    to the Transcript.

    [author:]

        Stefan Vogel

    [see also:]

        Signal

"

!

examples

"

                                                            [exBegin]

    UserNotification raiseRequest

                                                            [exEnd]

                                                            [exBegin]

    UserNotification raiseRequestWith:nil errorString:'what ?'

                                                            [exEnd]

                                                            [exBegin]

    UserNotification raiseRequestWith:nil errorString:' what ?'

                                                            [exEnd]

"

! !

!UserNotification class methodsFor:'initialization'!

initialize

    NotifierString := 'User Notification:'.

    "

     self initialize

    "

    "Created: / 23.7.1999 / 15:31:44 / stefan"

! !

!UserNotification methodsFor:'default actions'!

defaultAction

    "Default action for notifications: open a info box with description"

    |text|

    text := self description.

    (Smalltalk isInitialized 

     and:[Dialog notNil

     and:[Screen notNil

     and:[Screen current notNil

     and:[Screen current isOpen

    ]]]]) ifTrue:[

        Dialog autoload.        "in case its autoloaded"

        Dialog information:text.

    ] ifFalse:[

        "

         on systems without GUI, simply show

         the message on the Transcript.

        "

        Transcript show:'notification: '; showCR:text.

    ].

    self proceed.

    "

      UserNotification raiseRequestErrorString:' abc'

    "

    "Modified: / 3.8.1999 / 14:06:55 / stefan"

! !

!UserNotification class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

! !

UserNotification initialize!