Only for Qt and Wx ports. Use psgtray package for the tkinter port

SystemTray

A System Tray

SystemTray(
    menu = None,
    filename = None,
    data = None,
    data_base64 = None,
    tooltip = None
)

Parameter Descriptions

Name	Type	Default	Description
data	bytes	None	in-ram image for icon (same as data_base64 parm)
data_base64	bytes	None	base-64 data for icon
filename	str	None	filename for icon
menu	List[List[List[str] or str]]	None	Menu definition. Example - ['UNUSED', ['My', 'Simple', '---', 'Menu', 'Exit']]
tooltip	str	None	tooltip string

This class has no public properties

def close
def hide
def read
def show_message
def timer_timeout
def un_hide
def update

Close the system tray window

close()

Hides the icon

hide()

Reads the context menu

read(
    timeout = None
)

Parameter Descriptions

Name	Type	Default	Description
timeout		None	Optional. Any value other than None indicates a non-blocking read

Shows a balloon above icon in system tray

show_message(
    title,
    message,
    filename = None,
    data = None,
    data_base64 = None,
    messageicon = None,
    time = 10000
)

Parameter Descriptions

Name	Type	Default	Description
data	b''	None	Optional in-ram icon
data_base64	b''	None	Optional base64 icon
filename	str	None	Optional icon filename
message	str		Message to be displayed
messageicon		None
time	int or (int, int)	10000	Amount of time to display message in milliseconds. If tuple, first item is fade in/out duration
title	str		Title shown in balloon
RETURN	Any		The event that happened during the display such as user clicked on message

timer_timeout(
    event
)

Restores a previously hidden icon

un_hide()

Updates the menu, tooltip or icon

update(
    menu = None,
    tooltip = None,
    filename = None,
    data = None,
    data_base64 = None
)

Parameter Descriptions

Name	Type	Default	Description
data	???	None	icon raw image
data_base64	???	None	icon base 64 image
filename	???	None	icon filename
menu	???	None	menu defintion
tooltip	???	None	string representing tooltip