Hi, On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:37:42 -0400 Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote:
> On 4/6/10 5:03 PM, Nemes Andrei wrote: > > > > > Another solution to the problem would be pointing me to a more > > convenient tray icon constructor (instructions how to use would be > > greatly appreciated) if you know any. > > > > I hope someone can help me. Thank you for your time and support. > > This seems a rather convoluted way to do things. There are various Tk > extensions that provide system tray functionality and it should be > fairly simple to write a Python wrapper for them. > > If you're on Windows, look at winico: > > http://wiki.tcl.tk/4089 > > If you're on *Nix, look at tktray: > > http://wiki.tcl.tk/5972 > > or freedock: > > http://wiki.tcl.tk/4090 > > --Kevin > If you want to use tktray, I already wrote a wrapper for it; to create a tray icon, you can do something like: root = Tk() root.withdraw() img = PhotoImage(file='image.gif') icon = TkTray.Icon(root) icon.configure(image=img) icon.menu.add_command(label='Quit', command=root.quit) HTH Michael ######## file TkTray.py ##################################### import Tkinter class Icon(Tkinter.BaseWidget, Tkinter.Wm): def __init__(self, master=None, cnf={}, **kw): if not master: if Tkinter._support_default_root: if not Tkinter._default_root: Tkinter._default_root = Tkinter.Tk() master = Tkinter._default_root self.TktrayVersion = master.tk.call('package', 'require', 'tktray') # stolen from Tkinter.Toplevel if kw: cnf = Tkinter._cnfmerge((cnf, kw)) extra = () for wmkey in ['screen', 'class_', 'class', 'visible', 'colormap']: if cnf.has_key(wmkey): val = cnf[wmkey] # TBD: a hack needed because some keys # are not valid as keyword arguments if wmkey[-1] == '_': opt = '-'+wmkey[:-1] else: opt = '-'+wmkey extra = extra + (opt, val) del cnf[wmkey] Tkinter.BaseWidget.__init__(self, master, 'tktray::icon', cnf, {}, extra) self.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", self.destroy) self.menu = Tkinter.Menu(self, tearoff=0) self.bind('<3>', self._popupmenu) def bbox(self): return self._getints(self.tk.call(self._w, 'bbox')) or None def _popupmenu(self, event): w, h = self.menu.winfo_reqwidth(), self.menu.winfo_reqheight() x0, y0, x1, y1 = self.bbox() # get the coords for the popup menu; we want it to the mouse pointer's # left and above the pointer in case the taskbar is on the bottom of the # screen, else below the pointer; add 1 pixel towards the pointer in each # dimension, so the pointer is '*inside* the menu when the button is being # released, so the menu will not unpost on the initial button-release event if y0 > self.winfo_screenheight() / 2: # assume the panel is at the bottom of the screen x, y = event.x_root - w + 1, event.y_root - h + 1 else: x, y = event.x_root - w + 1, event.y_root - 1 # make sure that x is not outside the screen if x < 5: x = 5 self.menu.tk_popup(x, y) ################################################################# _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
