Mark Hammond wrote: >> I'm writing a win32 service in Python. I'd like to add a >> tray icon displayed >> whenever the service is running. I have played around with >> SysTrayIcon.py >> [1], but if a user logs off and logs back on, the tray icon >> disappears even >> though the service is still running. I think the answer is >> probably getting >> my service to recreate the icon whenever a logon event >> happens. I don't >> really know much about win32 programming, though. Can >> someone point me in >> the right direction to solve this problem? > > Services have trouble interacting with the desktop. The general approach is > to have a dedicated taskbar application that communicates with the dedicated > service using some kind of IPC. > > Mark
Mark, Please accept my apology for hijacking this thread, but it is exactly what I want to implement. I have a COM object that is doing an upload. I want a system tray icon that: 1) Shows a heartbeat (upload progress indicator) 2) Provides the user with a way to cancel the upload I found systrayicon.py and it almost does what I want. I thought about using socket server/client to have the two apps communicate but I'm at a complete loss as to how to implement socket client in the systrayicon.py program since it uses PumpMessages. I just don't see how to connect to my com server (which would also be a socket server) inside some loop mechanism. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Regards, Larry Bates _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32