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  • Nick Craig-Wood
    #1

    A cross platform systray icon

    Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
    platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
    minimum.

    I've seen the win32all code which is very similar to the C code I've
    written before for Windows. It would be a small irritation to have to
    integrate its event loop with whichever GUI framework I'm using for
    the rest of it though.

    I don't know how to make a systray under KDE/Gnome though, but I think
    freedesktop has made it a lot easier now. I didn't manage to find a
    python example - does anyone have one?

    Ideally I'd like someone to tell me that PyQT, tkinter or PyGTK does
    it all for me, but from my searching on the subject I doubt it is
    going to be that easy!

    Thanks
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    Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com-- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick
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    • TheSeeker
      #2
      Re: A cross platform systray icon


      Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
      Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
      platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
      minimum.
      >
      I've seen the win32all code which is very similar to the C code I've
      written before for Windows. It would be a small irritation to have to
      integrate its event loop with whichever GUI framework I'm using for
      the rest of it though.
      >
      You might do a search for TaskBarIcon in the wxPython toolkit.

      Duane

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        • Larry Bates
          #3
          Re: A cross platform systray icon

          Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
          Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
          platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
          minimum.
          >
          I've seen the win32all code which is very similar to the C code I've
          written before for Windows. It would be a small irritation to have to
          integrate its event loop with whichever GUI framework I'm using for
          the rest of it though.
          >
          I don't know how to make a systray under KDE/Gnome though, but I think
          freedesktop has made it a lot easier now. I didn't manage to find a
          python example - does anyone have one?
          >
          Ideally I'd like someone to tell me that PyQT, tkinter or PyGTK does
          it all for me, but from my searching on the subject I doubt it is
          going to be that easy!
          >
          Thanks
          Google turned this up.

          http://radio.weblogs.com/0110159/gems/systray_py.txt


          Hope it helps.

          -Larry

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            • Nick Craig-Wood
              #4
              Re: A cross platform systray icon

              Larry Bates <larry.bates@we bsafe.comwrote:
              Google turned this up.
              >
              http://radio.weblogs.com/0110159/gems/systray_py.txt
              I couldn't get that to work - wxwindows bitrot maybe?

              I did find an example which worked under windows & linux

              http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/475155


              Thanks anyway

              --
              Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com-- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

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                • Nick Craig-Wood
                  #5
                  Re: A cross platform systray icon

                  TheSeeker <duane.kaufman@ gmail.comwrote:
                  Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
                  Does anyone have some hints / tips / experience with making a cross
                  platform systray icon? It should work on Windows, Gnome and KDE at
                  minimum.
                  You might do a search for TaskBarIcon in the wxPython toolkit.
                  Yes thank you (and everyone else) who replied with that - that looks
                  like just the thing.

                  I was able to create a systray icon that worked under linux and
                  windows which is great!

                  Now to learn wxpython ;-)

                  Thanks

                  --
                  Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com-- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

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