[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Patches-1394143 ] pop3proxy_tray fails when windows is starting

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Patches item #1394143, was opened at 2005-12-31 15:46
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Assigned to: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Summary: pop3proxy_tray fails when windows is starting

Initial Comment:
>From a mail to SpamBayes, we had the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pop3proxy_tray.py", line 556, in ?
  File "pop3proxy_tray.py", line 552, in main
  File "pop3proxy_tray.py", line 188, in __init__
pywintypes.error: (1460, 'Shell_NotifyIcon', 'This
operation returned because the timeout period expired.')

This lead me to:
http://groups.google.com.au/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui/browse_frm/thread/537fc374abbd74be

which implies it is probably a problem when XP is
starting up.  I am guessing that XP does startup
slightly differently to 2000, hence it will never be
seen there.

I haven't tested this patch (but have tested a similar
one to the pywin32 demo this was based on).  To test, I
suggest you simply kill explorer.exe, then try and
start the taskbar app.  You should find it currently
fails to start.  You should find that with this patch
it does start, and the icon is correctly created when
explorer restarts.  I've assigned to Tony in the hope
he is in a position to test - if not, please assign to
someone else :)

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