windows tray code

wxPython Users
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Please, PLEASE resist the temptation to write Yet Another Tray Application.

Many Windows programmers seem to feel that having a tray icon is a sign of
their guruness, and that every application they write is so studly that it MUST
occupy a permanent piece of my precious desktop real estate. Tray bloat has
grown so bad that some of the laptops I see at client sites have 30 or 40 tray
icons, extending halfway across the screen. That renders the entire tray
concept useless.

I look for minimized apps in the task bar, where they belong. If there are
things I need to control, write a control panel applet.

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:04:05 +0300, Ruslan Spivak <alienoid@is.lg.ua> wrote:

Hello.

Can anybody give me hint how to make so that wxPython program under
windows can go into tray after minimizing?

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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Many Windows programmers seem to feel that having a tray icon is a
sign of their guruness, and that every application they write is so
studly that it MUST occupy a permanent piece of my precious desktop
real estate.

...

I look for minimized apps in the task bar, where they belong. If there are
things I need to control, write a control panel applet.

Aren't your two concerns contradictory? Tray icons take up much less
valuable real estate than taskbars, and you can't control an
application from a minimized taskbar icon.

I agree that there are tray-based applications that should be
out-of-the-way services with no ui visible at all times (like the
keyboard hook app that came installed on my laptop), but the first
thing I turned off on XP was hiding of tray icons.

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:44:42AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

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