/BurntToast

Module for creating and displaying Toast Notifications on Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows 10 operating systems.

Primary LanguagePowerShellMIT LicenseMIT

BurntToast

PowerShell Module for displaying Windows 8/10 Toast Notifications

Install

Manual Install

Download BurntToast.zip and extract the contents into C:\Users\[User]\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\modules\BurntToast (you may have to create these directories if they don't exist.)

Scripted Install

Open a PowerShell console or the PowerShell ISE and run the following:

iex ((New-Object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Windos/BurntToast/master/install.ps1'))

Note that your Execution Policy should be set to at least Bypass. See about_Execution_Policies for more details.

PowerShell Gallery Install (Requires PowerShell v5)

See the PowerShell Gallery for the complete details and instructions.

Example

New-BurntToastNotification -FirstLine 'Random Background Job' -SecondLine 'You background job has finished. This text is really long and wraps to the third line.'

Windows 8.1

BurntToast Notification Example in Windows 8.1

Windows 10

BurntToast Notification Example in Windows 10

Releases

  • Bleeding Edge (Development/Raw Repo - CAUTION)
  • Latest Release
    • Credential parameter added so toasts can be generated for regular user when running PowerShell host as a different (e.g. Admin) account.
  • v0.3.0
    • Help has been added
    • Toasts can be silent with -Silent switch
    • General bug fixes
  • v0.2.0
  • v0.1.0

Contributors

TODO

License

Image Credit

The default image for BurntToast Notifications is a photo taken by Craig Sunter

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