Nice-to-have: Some kind of confirmation when config was live-reloaded

[newsve]

With Autohotkey I had created a minimal flicker of the entire screen on live-reload which was actually a black screen shown for 75ms. This was very satisfying and you knew that the config was reloaded. Even better when you just remapped the lrld key once again and don't know if the config was really reloaded, haha.

However, not sure if something like this is that easy across all OSes. Maybe there's some standard API for a beep, so if anyone has a good idea how we could implement an OS-wide indicator, visual or auditorial, that a live reload has happened you are welcome to share!

It's not a super important thing but once you have it, it just feels good.

[eugenesvk]

With this Windows gui build you can have some visual cue - an image near a mouse pointer, althought it's not specific to reload, but showing up for any layer, so maybe makes sense to show something special for lrld

I've also added configurable system notification messages on config reloads, so you can get a "toast"

[gerhard-h]

I would like to call an configurable action after lrld with positiv or negativ feedback, like PowerShell Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech; (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).Speak('ai')") or (macro r e l o a d e d 500 bspc bspc bspc)

Workaround for negativ feedback (positiv feedback is just asumed): --check config

test.cmd

kanata --check
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO Fail
@PowerShell -NoProfile -NoLogo -Command Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech; (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).Speak('ai')
GOTO EOF
:Fail
@PowerShell -NoProfile -NoLogo -Command Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech; (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).Speak('reload will fail')
:EOF

(multi (cmd test.cmd) lrld-next)

[gerhard-h]

another version reading the main error message, not sure it is that helpfull :)

kanata --check 2> test.log
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO Fail
@PowerShell Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech; (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).Speak('ai')
GOTO :EOF

:Fail
grep help test.log > test.say
@PowerShell Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech; (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).Speak((gc "test.say"))

[gerhard-h]

this seems more usefull

:Fail
start "kanata error" cmd /k kanata --check