[python-win32] making icons on task bar require double-click

[Steven James]

That is better explained...I still don't think you could modify the
behaviour of the quicklaunch, but here are some suggestions:

1) Write a custom explorer toolbar. You may be able to use PowerPro for this
(http://powerpro.webeddie.com/)
2) Use Launchy or something like it instead of quicklaunch.

3) Write a python script to scan your quick launch dir, replace every
shortcut with a link to itself (with a customized icon), and launch the
intended program only when one of the new shortcuts is clicked twice in
short succession. (haha that should keep you busy).

4) Upgrade to Windows 7, which negates the need for a quicklaunch anyway.

5) Make your quicklaunch bar smaller, and use the little double-arrow-menu
as a pop-up quicklaunch instead of having all icons showing.

Some of those might be helpful, some not.

Steven James


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Randy Syring <rsyring at inteli-com.com>wrote:

>  Tim,
>
> Thanks for your response.  I think I may have been using the wrong term.  I
> like the normal windows taskbar on the bottom of the screen.  What has
> happened to me though is that my quick launch has grown so large that I have
> put it at the bottom of the taskbar with the open windows above it.  The way
> I accidently click the quick launch icons is that when I go to switch to
> another window, I overshoot the window "tile" and hit a quick launch button
> instead.  To solve this problem initially, I moved the quick launch toolbar
> to the top of the screen and set it to remain on top.  However, some
> programs don't honor this and end up behind the toolbar, which is very
> annoying.
>
> I guess, if its not possible to modify the quick launch icons, that is ok.
> I can live with it.
>
> Thanks again for your response.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Randy Syring
> Intelicom
> 502-644-4776
>
> "Whether, then, you eat or drink or
> whatever you do, do all to the glory
> of God." 1 Cor 10:31
>
>
>
> Tim Roberts wrote:
>
> Randy Syring wrote:
>
>
>  Is it possible, with a python program, to run through the task bar
> icons and change them so that their current single-click event would
> get transferred to a double-click event?  I click them by mistake
> sometimes and its very annoying to wait for the program to open just
> so I can close it.  I haven't been able to find a way to accomplish
> this natively so I figured a python script set to run when my user
> logs in and the windows extensions might do the trick.
>
>
>  In short, no.  This requires an injectable window hook, and there is at
> present no way to do that kind of window hook in Python.
>
> How do you happen to click on these accidentally?  Perhaps there are
> other ways to solve this.  For example, you can configure the taskbar so
> that it hides itself unless you hover the mouse at the bottom of the
> screen.  Or, you can drag the taskbar to any other edge of the screen.
> If you find yourself hovering around the bottom edge most of the time,
> perhaps moving the taskbar to the top would solve that.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/attachments/20091023/8dda02ab/attachment.htm>