Using QSystemTrayIcon with PyQt

[Alex Teiche]

On Mar 31, 11:49 am, Alex Teiche <xelap... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 3:50 pm, Benjamin <musiccomposit... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mar 29, 11:02 pm, Alex Teiche <xelap... at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello,
>
> > > I am pretty new to Python, and have never learned C++.  I am trying to
> > > implement the following thing into my python application:
>
> > >http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qsystemtrayicon.html
>
> > > Through PyQt.  I have been using PyQt for awhile and I know how do use
> > > it, but I could not get this specific thing to work.  Can someone give
> > > me some hints as to get it working in Python?
>
> > What problems are you having?
>
> > > Thanks a ton,
>
> > > Alex
>
> Thanks everyone for your help.  I found the example to be particularly
> helpful, and I have made a simplified version just to display an icon
> with a quit button in its menu.  Once I know how to do that I will
> incorporate it into my larger program, with more options and the
> ability show messages.  The problem is, it doesn't work, and I can't
> find out what's wrong.  Can you give me some hints?
>
> Here is the code:
> import sys
> from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
>
> class trayIcon(QtGui.QWidget):
>     def __init__(self, parent=None):
>         QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
>
>         #********Create Actions for the Tray Menu********#
>         self.quitAction = QtGui.QAction(self.tr("&Quit"), self)
>         QtCore.QObject.connect(self.quitAction,
> QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"), QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT("quit()"))
>
>         create_tray_icon()
>
>         self.composeAction.setEnabled(visible)
>         QtGui.QWidget.setVisible(self, visible)
>
>         self.trayIcon.show()
>
>     def create_tray_icon(self):
>          self.trayIconMenu = QtGui.QMenu(self)
>          self.trayIconMenu.addAction(self.composeAction)
>          self.trayIcon = QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon(self)
>          self.trayIcon.setContextMenu(self.trayIconMenu)
>          self.trayIcon.setIcon(bad.svg)
>
> app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
> sys.exit(app.exec_())

OK, I messed around with it some more, and it works.  I just don't
know how to set an icon, and the example doesn't help at all.

Here is the code:
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class Systray(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self)

        self.createActions()
        self.createTrayIcon()

        #QtCore.QObject.connect(self.trayIcon,
QtCore.SIGNAL("messageClicked()"), self.messageClicked)
        #QtCore.QObject.connect(self.trayIcon,
QtCore.SIGNAL("activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)"),
self.iconActivated)

	self.trayIcon.show()

    def createActions(self):
	#self.minimizeAction = QtGui.QAction(self.tr("Mi&nimize"), self)
	#QtCore.QObject.connect(self.minimizeAction,
	#	QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"), self, QtCore.SLOT("hide()"))

	#self.maximizeAction = QtGui.QAction(self.tr("Ma&ximize"), self)
	#QtCore.QObject.connect(self.maximizeAction,
	#	QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"), self,
	#	QtCore.SLOT("showMaximized()"))

	#self.restoreAction = QtGui.QAction(self.tr("&Restore"), self)
	#QtCore.QObject.connect(self.restoreAction,
#		QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"), self,
	#	QtCore.SLOT("showNormal()"))

	self.quitAction = QtGui.QAction(self.tr("&Quit"), self)
	QtCore.QObject.connect(self.quitAction, QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"),
		QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT("quit()"))

    def createTrayIcon(self):
         self.trayIconMenu = QtGui.QMenu(self)
         #self.trayIconMenu.addAction(self.minimizeAction)
         #self.trayIconMenu.addAction(self.maximizeAction)
         #self.trayIconMenu.addAction(self.restoreAction)
         #self.trayIconMenu.addSeparator()
         self.trayIconMenu.addAction(self.quitAction)

         self.trayIcon = QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon(self)
         self.trayIcon.setContextMenu(self.trayIconMenu)

app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
x = Systray()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

How would I go about setting the icon?