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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.

6 Responses to “Creating a Task Bar icon in wxPython”

1. bruce says:

   August 17, 2007 at 3:07 am

   Very nice. thanks man!
2. bruce says:

   August 17, 2007 at 4:07 am

   Very nice. thanks man!
3. Hasanat Kazmi says:

   March 10, 2009 at 6:54 am

   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
4. sucotronic says:

   April 1, 2009 at 3:02 pm

   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.
5. Andrei Nemes says:

   March 23, 2010 at 12:34 pm

   I’ve been looking everywhere for the simplest way possible to make a task bar icon. A big and fat THANK YOU!
6. Myself says:

   July 8, 2010 at 8:59 pm

   Thanks for the info! And I cannot believe that this topic is somewhat alive even after three years.