I'd just need a quick example on how to easily put an icon with python on my systray. This means: I run the program, no window shows up, just a tray icon (I've got a png file) shows up in the systray and when I right-click on it a menu appears with some options (and when I click on an option, a function is run). Is that possible? I don't need any window at all...
Examples / code snippets are REALLY appreciated! :D
2018 version
import wx.adv
import wx
TRAY_TOOLTIP = 'Name'
TRAY_ICON = 'icon.png'
def create_menu_item(menu, label, func):
item = wx.MenuItem(menu, -1, label)
menu.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, func, id=item.GetId())
menu.Append(item)
return item
class TaskBarIcon(wx.adv.TaskBarIcon):
def __init__(self, frame):
self.frame = frame
super(TaskBarIcon, self).__init__()
self.set_icon(TRAY_ICON)
self.Bind(wx.adv.EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DOWN, self.on_left_down)
def CreatePopupMenu(self):
menu = wx.Menu()
create_menu_item(menu, 'Site', self.on_hello)
menu.AppendSeparator()
create_menu_item(menu, 'Exit', self.on_exit)
return menu
def set_icon(self, path):
icon = wx.Icon(path)
self.SetIcon(icon, TRAY_TOOLTIP)
def on_left_down(self, event):
print ('Tray icon was left-clicked.')
def on_hello(self, event):
print ('Hello, world!')
def on_exit(self, event):
wx.CallAfter(self.Destroy)
self.frame.Close()
class App(wx.App):
def OnInit(self):
frame=wx.Frame(None)
self.SetTopWindow(frame)
TaskBarIcon(frame)
return True
def main():
app = App(False)
app.MainLoop()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
There is a package called pystray (bad name, just say it out loud) but works like a charm and is more lightweight than wx or Qt. These are the links:
https://pystray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
https://pypi.org/project/pystray/
An alternative if you are trying to run a python based program in the background you can run it as a service. Check out this active state recipe its pretty useful. I believe one of the options is to convert your application to exe with py2exe or pyinstall.