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so i have added a button to the Toast message.  Normally without the button it automatically disappears after 10 seconds but with a button it takes 1:30min before it goes away.

from the doc below.

"The toast will be dismissed after a predefined timeout period lapses. If the toast includes a button, then the timeout period is activated with the first user interaction, e.g., user touching the screen. During this time, if a button is displayed, the user can select it."

anyone have this problem?

Update:  After the toast msg is display and if I touch the screen then it will activate the timeout and then it disappears but if I let it sit there it will not go away until a very long long time.

[peter9477]

I haven't tried, but are you saying it will stay there for 90 seconds even if you are interacting with the screen?

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peter9477 wrote:
I haven't tried, but are you saying it will stay there for 90 seconds even if you are interacting with the screen?

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No.  If you touch the button then it goes away but it you do not touch the screen then it just sits there.

See my updated finding above.

What I really wanted is to display a toast message saying "Picture Saved. | View"  View is the button.  So when the user selects the View button it will view the picture and it will time out the close if the user does nothing but the problem is it will not close like 90 seconds.

[peter9477 · Accepted solution]

The behaviour you're describing appears to be exactly what they intended. It's for cases like the "Undo" example (you've seen the screenshot) where the user might not be prepared to react instantly.

Isn't what you're observing exactly what the text you quoted describes? If so, this isn't a bug as the thread title says, even if it doesn't fit what you want it to do.

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Maybe I miss understood the usage.  I would expect to behave the same with or without the button.  In the screen shot it has the Undo button in their example.  It doesn't make any sense to force the user to select button.  What if the user doesn't want to undo as an example and just want to dismiss the msg?

Like what I want to do is allow the user the option to view otherwise just timeout and goes away.

In anycase I guess I won't be adding the button.  thanks peter.

[Q-T]

Be nice to be able to set the timeout or even interupt it progamatically.  Maybe we can get this in the next release

[jaiaca]

Is there an example of adding the button in the documentation? I've just glanced around but couldn't find an actual code example - can this be done in both C++ and QML?

Thanks

[strobejb]

I figured out the button in QML. IIRC it is something like this:

SystemToast {

   id: toasty

   body: "body text here"

  button: {

     label: "hello"

  }

  onFinished: {

     console.log("closing");

  }

}

You can use a timer to dismiss the toast automatically after X seconds

[jaiaca]

Okay so I understand the QML aspect of it, which makes sense...But in C++ how is the button added to the toast? For example there's setBody, setIcon, etc but no setButton method

[strobejb]

I made a mistake in the qml I posted. What you need in QML is:

SystemToast {

   id: toasty

   body: "body text here"

   button.label: "hello"

 }