[python-win32] Adding a notification icon from a service

[Alan Trick]

Hi,

I have two smallish python modules, one which runs a service, and the
other which puts a notification icon with a trivial menu on the
windows panel (these modules are quite similar to existing examples in
pywin32). Both of these modules work fine by themselves. However when
I try to create the notification module from the service, I get
troubles. I'm starting the service using
win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine, and it works fine in debug mode
(as long as I'm running as Administrator), but when I try to start it,
the notification code fails and it won't add the icon; and when I try
to stop it, it wont' stop and just hangs.

The main problem that I can identify right now is that my calls to
win32gui.Shell_NotifyIcon fails. It raises a pywintypes.error(0,
'Shell_NotifyIcon', 'No error message is available'). Does anybody
know what this means, or have any idea how to figure out what it
means?