taskbarflash

Simple program to flash the taskbar icon and/or window of the calling console window (e.g. to flash the window from a .bat file).

Usage: taskbarflash [options] [num_flashes [flash_rate_ms]]

  Options:
    -h, --help          Print this help screen
    -t, --tray          Flash the taskbar icon (default)
    -w, --window        Flash the window caption
    -c, --caption       Alias for --window
    --all               Flash both the taskbar icon and the window caption

Installation

• Download taskbarflash.exe from the releases page
• To be able to call taskbarflash from any .bat file, put taskbarflash.exe in a directory that is included in your system's PATH environment variable.
• You can test your installation by running test.bat

Building

To build taskbarflash, you'll need to install cmake and some version of Visual Studio.

Using make.bat

• To build, run make.bat (the .exe will be in build/Release)
• To create a Visual Studio solution, run make.bat projects (the .sln will be in build/)
• To remove all build artifacts, run make.bat clean

Using cmake-gui

• Run cmake-gui
• Browse to the taskbarflash directory and also set the build directory (typically just add /build to the source directory path)
• Click Configure
• Select the Generator and hit Finish
• Hit Generate and then Open Project to open the project in Visual Studio
• Build the project in Visual Studio as normal

Using cmake

Open a command line in the taskbarflash directory and do the following:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release

If needed, you can specify a generator by doing cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" .. instead of cmake ..