Ascendara Notification Helper

The Notification Helper is a PyQt6-based tool that displays modern, animated notifications with customizable themes, titles, and messages. It features smooth fade animations, theme support, and automatic cleanup.

• Smooth fade in/out animations with cubic easing curves
• Automatic cleanup after display (4 second display time)
• Crash reporter integration via atexit
• High DPI support with proper scaling
• Customizable titles and messages
• Always-on-top display with frameless window
• Elegant rounded corners and borders
• Comprehensive logging system
• Multiple theme options (12 different color schemes)
• Cached icon loading for performance

AscendaraNotificationHelper.exe --theme <theme> --title <title> --message <message>

Parameters#

• --theme: (Optional) The visual theme to use. Options include: light, dark, blue, purple, emerald, rose, cyberpunk, sunset, forest, midnight, amber, ocean. Default is 'dark'
• --title: (Optional) The notification title. Default is 'Notification'
• --message: (Optional) The notification message. Default is 'This is a notification'

Example#

AscendaraNotificationHelper.exe --theme emerald --title "Update Available" --message "A new version of Ascendara is ready to install"

• Built with PyQt6 for modern UI components
• Uses hardware acceleration for smooth animations
• Implements automatic garbage collection
• Integrates with Ascendara's crash reporting system
• Supports high DPI displays and scaling
• Loads and caches application icon for performance
• Responsive design with proper padding and spacing
• Fallback icon mechanism when icon file is unavailable
• Optimized animation durations (200ms) for snappy performance

The tool integrates with Ascendara's crash reporting system. If an error occurs, it will automatically launch the crash reporter with relevant error details via the atexit module.

To integrate the Notification Helper into your Ascendara application:

import subprocess

def show_notification(theme, title, message):
    subprocess.Popen([
        "AscendaraNotificationHelper.exe",
        "--theme", theme,
        "--title", title,
        "--message", message
    ], creationflags=subprocess.CREATE_NO_WINDOW)