Hi!
I've the following task:
For about 80 people I've to create something that follows:
- who is on break at the moment
- who would like to go
- notify a user if he/she can go to take a break, if the user can't react to this notification it should timeout (disappear)
Unfortunately I have no resources so the only option which is common here and runs shared is office. So I decided to go with excel.
(it'd be easy if I could use a webpage, but that's not possible)
I managed to do almost everything, but the notification is very tricky. I use MessageBoxTimeout (user32.dll).
The only problem at the moment is that this popup window is always on top and there is no way to send back. (this is the nature of this window).
So I need a way to notify the user with some kind of window which has the option for timeout and can send the result (ok/No/timeout) back to the excel macro. But it wont stay as the foremost window. The best option would be that if woluld blink on the taskbar. Or an another window.
I've the following task:
For about 80 people I've to create something that follows:
- who is on break at the moment
- who would like to go
- notify a user if he/she can go to take a break, if the user can't react to this notification it should timeout (disappear)
Unfortunately I have no resources so the only option which is common here and runs shared is office. So I decided to go with excel.
(it'd be easy if I could use a webpage, but that's not possible)
I managed to do almost everything, but the notification is very tricky. I use MessageBoxTimeout (user32.dll).
The only problem at the moment is that this popup window is always on top and there is no way to send back. (this is the nature of this window).
So I need a way to notify the user with some kind of window which has the option for timeout and can send the result (ok/No/timeout) back to the excel macro. But it wont stay as the foremost window. The best option would be that if woluld blink on the taskbar. Or an another window.
