Show Notification

Show a notification to the player

Description

'show notification <notification_id> [time]'

The notification action let's you show a notification to the player. Notifications can be useful for letting them know about a certain event, or even achievement unlock.

Action ID: Notification

Reversible: Yes

Requires User Interaction: If no time was provided, the player will need to dismiss the notification but the game will not be interrupted.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
notification_id	string	The name of the notification you want to show. These must be declared beforehand using this action configuration functions.
time	number	Optional. The time in milliseconds after which the notification will be automatically dismissed.

Configuration

To show a notification, you must first declare it with all of it's characteristics. To do so, the notification action has a configuration function where you can define your id or name for each notification and their respective information.

Monogatari.action ('Notification').notifications ({
    '<notification_id>': {
        title: '',
        body: '',
        icon: ''
    }
});

Properties

Name	Type	Description
title	string	The title for the notification
body	string	The body of the notification
icon	string	A path to an image that will be shown as the icon for the notification

Examples

Simple Notification

The following script will show a notification that the player will have to manually dismiss.

Script

Monogatari.script ({
    'Start': [
        'show notification SampleNotification',
        'end'
    ] 
});

Notification Configuration

Timed Notification

The following script will make the notification go away automatically after 5 seconds have elapsed. Remember this action receives the time in milliseconds so we'll use 5000 to dismiss it after the 5 seconds

Script

Monogatari.script ({
    'Start': [
        'show notification SampleNotification 5000',
        'end'
    ] 
});

Notification Configuration