Windows XP Balloon Tips?

[Dave Brueck]

Dave Benjamin wrote:
> In article <mailman.4714.1097514475.5135.python-list at python.org>, Dave Brueck wrote:
> 
>>Yep, very possible - we use it in one of our apps (the internal debate wrt 
>>whether or not we should have a tray icon is another story ;-) ). If you just 
>>need to display the balloons then you can use ctypes to call the 
>>shell32.Shell_NotifyIconA function (Google for NotifyIcon on MSDN to learn the 
>>gory details).
>>
> 
> Just out of curiosity, is there a way to do this also from PythonWin
> (without having ctypes installed)?

I haven't used pywin32 in a long time, but ASPN says Shell_NotifyIcon is supported:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.2/PyWin32/win32gui.html

So: probably doable, haven't tried it though.

-Dave