Notify after runcell

[OverLordGoldDragon]

I often run commands that take 10-15 secs, or an unknown non-trivial time. I'd rather tab out and do something else while it executes, but also not longer than the execution, nor to have to check back constantly to see if execution finished.

The debugger will force focus on the Spyder application when running with a breakpoint; that's a bit too intrusive. Instead, I'd prefer there were some notification, like a sound effect, or the Spyder icon glowing orange, to indicate execution finished. Of course this can be optional via Preferences.

[steff456]

Hi @OverLordGoldDragon,

Can you please give us a little more information about the feature request you are asking for? If you can upload some drafts it will help us to the discussion to see if we can work in this for Spyder 6 or a future release. Also, I'm going to transfer this to our ux improvements repo so we can have it present.

Thanks for reporting!

[OverLordGoldDragon]

Sure. Suppose:

1. I Ctrl + Enter to runcell some code
2. It takes 20 secs to execute, maybe longer
3. I tab away from Spyder while it's executing
4. When the cell is done executing, Spyder issues a notification (e.g. icon glows, sound is played)

Example of icon glowing:

[steff456]

Thanks for explaining more in detail! @spyder-ide/core-developers what do you think about this?

[impact27]

This is a good idea but I don't think this will be easy to implement.

[OverLordGoldDragon]

@impact27 Wouldn't it be as simple as make_icon_glow() after runcell()? nope

[OverLordGoldDragon]

Spyder already forces focus on itself when reaching a breakpoint in debugging so there's a mechanism in place, which could be a temporary solution. Ctrl + Enter -> runcell(); force_focus()