Here is another nifty tidbit of python code that is often hard to find. If you work with Python and wxPython to build gui apps, there are a number of widgets etc., that can be hard to figure out. Adding a task bar icon for your app is one of them. This simple example shows you how to add a taskbar icon, and capture events from it.
import wx
def OnTaskBarRight(event):
app.ExitMainLoop()
#setup app
app= wx.PySimpleApp()
#setup icon object
icon = wx.Icon("favicon.ico", wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ICO)
#setup taskbar icon
tbicon = wx.TaskBarIcon()
tbicon.SetIcon(icon, "I am an Icon")
#add taskbar icon event
wx.EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_UP(tbicon, OnTaskBarRight)
app.MainLoop()
Check out the documentation for wxPython, for more information.
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Very nice. thanks man!
Very nice. thanks man!
On linux, this doesnt work, so after digging a little I found documentation of Icon at http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxbitmapoverview.html , according to information on this page, BITMAP_TYPE_ICO i.e. .ico files are not cross plateform and only work on windows, the only icon type which has full compatability is wxBITMAP_TYPE_XPM i.e. .xpm files, so if we use something like
icon = wx.Icon(“favicon.xpm”, wx.BITMAP_TYPE_XPM)
then it will become cross plateform
Old post but it works like a charm. I don’t know why Hasani have said the code doesn’t work in linux, because I’m running ubuntu and it works ok.
I’ve been looking everywhere for the simplest way possible to make a task bar icon. A big and fat THANK YOU!
Thanks for the info! And I cannot believe that this topic is somewhat alive even after three years.
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