tray icon using tkinter

[Anoop P B]

thanks a lot for your help. appreciate it.

actually, i havent done much tkinter or mfc before. i have been playing 
with wxpython for a month. i didnt like the idea that i had so many 
widget-ID numbers floating about in wxpython that i had to keep track 
of. and i dont understand why the concept of widgetID numbers - why not 
just link the widget-name with the handler?

anyways, so i decided to check out tkinter and see if i can write my 
current project in tkinter instead. it appears as though i need to learn 
mfc to do what i want (the tray icon). so, i am thinking i'd rather go 
back to using wxpython.

the TrayIt thing suggested by John looks like a gr8 tool but wont serve 
my purpose here since i want to also learn how to integrate this feature 
into my python program. Besides, deployment on the client's machine will 
be a problem. secondly, tkinter3000 seems to be in pre-alpha and the 
tkinter3k docs that i could find on the net dont seem to have anything 
on howto do the tray icon thing. or have i missed something there?

~anoop

Ryan wrote:
> john at johnnypops.demon.co.uk (John Popplewell) wrote in message news:
> 
>>Anoop P B <anoop79 at myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:
>>
>>>	is there a way that i can provide a tray icon ie. next to the clock (on 
>>>win32) for my program (using tkinter) ? i know that there is a way of 
>>>doing this in wxpython but i need to know whether its possible in tkinter.
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>anoop
>>
>>
>>Have you had a look at "Tray It!" ?
>>
>>http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/index.html
>>
>>cheers,
>>John.
> 
> 
> also look at the win32 extensions, I remember going through all the
> demo code that there is a way to do it (MFC I think but don't know for
> sure).  It is simple to do a try except block around the import and
> logic to use it since it will only be for windows.  It is used for the
> windows IDE also.
>   Also check out TKinter3000 at 
> http://www.pythonware.com/products/tkinter/tkinter3000.htm, they may
> have something (or you can ship the one from win32 extensions with
> your app)