tray icon in Windows

[fama1979]

I'm sorry if i'm newbie,
how can i have a icon to the trayicon (near timeclock) of windows?

Thanks

[Gerhard Häring]

fama1979 <fama...@email.it> wrote:

> I'm sorry if i'm newbie,
> how can i have a icon to the trayicon (near timeclock) of windows?

You can use wxPython to do that. Or, alternatively, you can use the win32api
module from win32all (but doing it the win32api way is a major pain in the
ass).

wxPython less so ;-)

Here's some rough code for a biff-like IMAP mail checker I've once written
using wxPython (I mainly adapted the notify icon stuff from the wxPython demo):

This is not the easiest problem to solve, espeically for a newbie.

HTH,

Gerhard

Ugly code follows:

#!/bin/env python
import sys, os, time, imaplib
from wxPython.wx import *
import images

NOMAIL = 0
GOTMAIL = 1

class MainWindow(wxFrame):
def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
wxFrame.__init__(self, parent, -1, title, size = (800, 600),
style=wxDEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE|wxNO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE) #|wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR )

#icon = wxIconFromXPMData(images.getMondrianData())
#self.SetIcon(icon)

# setup a taskbar icon, and catch some events from it
icon = wxIcon("normal.ico", wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO)
self.tbicon = wxTaskBarIcon()
self.tbicon.SetIcon(icon, "Mailwatcher")
EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DCLICK(self.tbicon, self.OnTaskBarActivate)
EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_UP(self.tbicon, self.OnTaskBarMenu)
EVT_MENU(self.tbicon, self.TBMENU_SHOW, self.OnTaskBarActivate)
EVT_MENU(self.tbicon, self.TBMENU_HIDE, self.OnTaskBarHide)
EVT_MENU(self.tbicon, self.TBMENU_CLOSE, self.OnTaskBarClose)
ID_Start = wxNewId()
self.b = wxButton(self, ID_Start, ' Panel A ')
ID_TIMER = wxNewId()
self.timer = wxTimer(self, ID_TIMER)
EVT_TIMER(self, ID_TIMER, self.OnTimer)

EVT_BUTTON(self, ID_Start, self.OnStart)
self.timer.Start(5000)

self.status = NOMAIL

self.imap = imaplib.IMAP4("myhost")
self.imap.login("myuser", "mypass")
self.imap.select()

self.Show(false)

def OnStart(self, event):
pass
#wxBell()

def GotMail(self):
if self.status != GOTMAIL:
icon = wxIcon("gotmail.ico", wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO)

self.tbicon.SetIcon(icon, "Mailwatcher - Got Mail")
self.status = GOTMAIL
wxBell()

def SetNormal(self):
if self.status != NOMAIL:
icon = wxIcon("normal.ico", wxBITMAP_TYPE_ICO)
self.tbicon.SetIcon(icon, "Mailwatcher - No Mail")
self.status = NOMAIL

def CheckMail(self):
typ, data = self.imap.search(None, '(UNSEEN UNDELETED)')
if len(data[0].split()) > 0:
# New mail - let's filter first
os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, r'D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe',
r'D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe', '--login -c "cd /home/Gerhard.Haering/src/imapfilter; ./imapfilter.py"')

self.imap.expunge()
typ, data = self.imap.search(None, '(ALL)')
size = len(data[0].split())

return size > 0

def OnTimer(self, event):
if self.CheckMail():
self.GotMail()
else:
self.SetNormal()
wxGetApp().ProcessIdle()

def OnCloseWindow(self, event):
self.dying = true
self.window = None
self.mainmenu = None
if hasattr(self, "tbicon"):
del self.tbicon
self.Destroy()

def OnTaskBarActivate(self, evt):
#if self.IsIconized():
# self.Iconize(false)
#if not self.IsShown():
# self.Show(true)
os.startfile(r'mutt.lnk')
self.SetNormal()
wxGetApp().ProcessIdle()
#self.Raise()

TBMENU_SHOW = 1000
TBMENU_HIDE = 1001
TBMENU_CLOSE = 1002

def OnTaskBarMenu(self, evt):
menu = wxMenu()
#menu.Append(self.TBMENU_HIDE, "&Hide Mailwatcher")
#menu.Append(self.TBMENU_SHOW, "&Show Mailwatcher")
menu.Append(self.TBMENU_CLOSE, "&Close")
self.tbicon.PopupMenu(menu)
menu.Destroy()
wxGetApp().ProcessIdle()

def OnTaskBarClose(self, evt):
self.Close()

# because of the way wxTaskBarIcon.PopupMenu is implemented we have to
# prod the main idle handler a bit to get the window to actually close
wxGetApp().ProcessIdle()

def OnTaskBarHide(self, evt):
self.Show(False)

# because of the way wxTaskBarIcon.PopupMenu is implemented we have to
# prod the main idle handler a bit to get the window to actually close
wxGetApp().ProcessIdle()

def OnIconfiy(self, evt):
self.Show(false)
evt.Skip()

def OnMaximize(self, evt):
evt.Skip()

class MyApp(wxApp):
def OnInit(self):
wxInitAllImageHandlers()
frame = MainWindow(None, -1, "Mailwatcher")
#frame.Show(true)
#self.SetTopWindow(frame)

return true

def main():
app = MyApp(0)
app.MainLoop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

[fama1979]

thank you

have a nice day