Those are two questions, actually: Adding a tray icon can be done with Win32 API. Example: SysTrayIcon.py Hiding the cmd.exe window is as easy as using pythonw.exe instead of python.exe to run your scripts.
Take a look at this blog entry: REFRESHING THE TASKBAR NOTIFICATION AREA. I am using this code to refresh the system tray to get rid of orphaned icons and it works perfectly. The blog entry is very informative and gives a great explanation of the steps the author performed to discover his solution. #define FW(x,y) … Read more
Well, after some debugging I found the problem. The QMenu object it is destroyed after finish __init__ function because it doesn’t have a parent. While the parent of a QSystemTrayIcon can be an object for the QMenu it has to be a Qwidget. This code works (see how QMenu gets the same parent as the … Read more
First, add a NotifyIcon control to the Form. Then wire up the Notify Icon to do what you want. If you want it to hide to tray on minimize, try this. Private Sub frmMain_Resize(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Resize If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then Me.ShowInTaskbar = False Else Me.ShowInTaskbar = True … Read more
there no issue to change Icon on some bases with output as blinking Icon create an Arrays of BufferedImage or Queue start Swing Timer on desired event and change BufferedImage or Icons on some period and to stop Swing Timer after some time remained or add ActionListener to the Message, another way could be determine … Read more
As of Java 6, this is supported in the SystemTray and TrayIcon classes. SystemTray has a pretty extensive example in its Javadocs: TrayIcon trayIcon = null; if (SystemTray.isSupported()) { // get the SystemTray instance SystemTray tray = SystemTray.getSystemTray(); // load an image Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(“your_image/path_here.gif”); // create a action listener to listen for default … Read more
With the help of the pywin32 library you can use the following example code I found here: from win32api import * from win32gui import * import win32con import sys, os import struct import time class WindowsBalloonTip: def __init__(self, title, msg): message_map = { win32con.WM_DESTROY: self.OnDestroy, } # Register the Window class. wc = WNDCLASS() hinst … Read more
GetLastInputInfo. Documented at PInvoke.net.
The code project article Creating a Tasktray Application gives a very simple explanation and example of creating an application that only ever exists in the System Tray. Basically change the Application.Run(new Form1()); line in Program.cs to instead start up a class that inherits from ApplicationContext, and have the constructor for that class initialize a NotifyIcon … Read more