Tkinter tray icon (winico, twapi, pywin32)

Question

I am learning tkinter but get disappointed about the lack of a tray handling feature. So far, I found some tcl extensions: winico http://wiki.tcl.tk/4089 and twapi http://wiki.tcl.tk/9886 Unfortunately, I lack the ability to make python/c/tcl wrappers (if anyone know that can help ñ_ñ) Also I found pywin32 and write a little tray/console app, but I don't know how to use it with tkinter (it freezes the tk() window). However, I prefer to use extension instead of the windows api.

Answer 1

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Edit with comment from @FelipeJavierV.H.:

So I contacted Michael Lange and he shared with me a wrapper he wrote for winico / tktray :

1. Download winico .
2. Unzip the winico folder in the tcl folder of your Python installation (eg C:\\Programas\\Python25\\tcl\\winico0.6\\ . Note: a lot of files inside, demo.tcl , pkgIndex.tcl , Winico06.dll ).
3. Download this program , extract it and execute TrayIcon.py (maybe with a smiley.ico in the same folder).