wx.TaskBarIcon to display in the menu bar on OS X instead of the Dock.

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Hello everyone,

I am trying to get the wx.TaskBarIcon to display in the menu bar on OS X instead of the Dock. I found this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/145894/how-to-set-a-menubar-icon-on-mac-osx-using-wx but I can't figure out how to do this in python, could someone please help?

Thank you,
Gabriel

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Hi Gabriel,

Hello everyone,

I am trying to get the wx.TaskBarIcon to display in the menu bar on
OS X
instead of the Dock. I found this :
macos - how to set a menubar icon on mac osx using wx - Stack Overflow
but I can't figure out how to do this in python, could someone
please help?

That post is misleading - it's talking about a patch that was never
applied to wxWidgets for whatever reason. Unpatched wxWidgets /
wxPython does not support this. If you want to have an icon display in
the menu bar, you'll have to write PyObjC code manipulating
NSStatusItems to do it.

Regards,

Kevin

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On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:

Thank you,
Gabriel

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Is there any chance of this being added to wxPython in the foreseeable
future? Gabriel is not the only one who would like to do this.

Cheers,
-Ives

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On Aug 25, 4:35 am, Kevin Ollivier <kevin-li...@theolliviers.com> wrote:

That post is misleading - it's talking about a patch that was never
applied to wxWidgets for whatever reason. Unpatched wxWidgets /
wxPython does not support this. If you want to have an icon display in
the menu bar, you'll have to write PyObjC code manipulating
NSStatusItems to do it.

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There is almost always a chance. There will be a greater chance if somebody submits a patch that implements it and addresses whatever problems prevented the old patch from being applied.

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On 9/26/09 6:00 AM, Ives wrote:

Is there any chance of this being added to wxPython in the foreseeable
future? Gabriel is not the only one who would like to do this.

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