Hi,

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:00:38 -0700 (PDT)
Nemes Andrei <teh_sh_meis...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry for being such a beginner in this, but could not find where
> to download the winico. Is it included in Tk already? 

I think you will have to download winico-0.6.zip from

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/files/

and copy the winico-0.6 folder into your Python's Tcl folder so that Tk
can find it. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a Tkinter wrapper
available, so you will have to write it yourself :(

>From a quick glance at the winico manpage a quick'n'dirty wrapper could
look like this (untested!):
############# file Winico.py ##############################
import Tkinter

class Winico:
    def __init__(self, filename):

        master = Tkinter._default_root
        if not master:
            raise RuntimeError, 'Too early to create icon'
        self.WinicoVersion = master.tk.call('package', 'require', 'winico')
        self.tk = master.tk
        
    def createfrom(self, filename):
        return self.tk.call('winico', 'createfrom', filename)
    
    def delete(self, id_):
        self.tk.call('winico', 'delete', id_)
    
    def load(self, resourcename, filename=None):
        return self.tk.call('winico', 'load', resourcename, filename)
        
    def info(self, id_=None):
        # the output should of course be formatted somehow
        return self.tk.call('winico', 'info', id_)
    
    def setwindow(self, size='big', pos=None):
        return self.tk.call('winico', 'setwindow', size, pos)
    
    def taskbar_add(self, id_, callback=None, pos=None, text=None):
        args = ()
        if callback:
            args += ('-callback', callback)
        if pos:
            args += ('-pos', pos)
        if text:
            args += ('-text', text)
        return self.tk.call('winico', 'taskbar', 'add', id_, *args)
        
    def taskbar_modify(self, id_, callback=None, pos=None, text=None):
        args = ()
        if callback:
            args += ('-callback', callback)
        if pos:
            args += ('-pos', pos)
        if text:
            args += ('-text', text)
        return self.tk.call('winico', 'taskbar', 'modify', id_, *args)
    
    def taskbar_delete(self, id_):
        return self.tk.call('winico', 'taskbar', 'delete', id_)

#########################################################

If you compare this with the winico man page from

  http://tktable.sourceforge.net/winico/winico.html

you will probably see the point how this is supposed to work.

Another problem is how to write the callback function for mouse clicks
onto the icon. I guess you will have to add the percent substitutions
and register the callback manually, like:

    import Tkinter, Winico
    root = Tkinter.Tk()

    def your_callback(icon_id, message_specifier):
        if message_specifier == "WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK":
            (... do something with icon_id...)
        elif message_specifier == "WM_RBUTTONDOWN":
            (... do something else with icon_id...)

    # register the callback for Tk:
    cmd = (root.register(your_callback), '%i', '%m')
    
    # create an icon
    icon = Winico.Winico()
    icon_id = icon.createfrom("some.ico")
    icon.taskbar_add(icon_id, callback=cmd, text="Your text here")

I think you see the point, how the percent substitutions are passed to
the callback.

I hope this helps

Michael

PS:
I forwarded this to the list, maybe it is interesting for
other people, too, I hope that's ok.
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