Reputation: 52921
I want a program of mine to show up in the taskbar, but still not have the traditional windows boarder. How can I go about this? I know of self.overrideredirect(1)
, however this removes my program from the taskbar.
This is for Windows 7.
Upvotes: 7
Views: 11013
Reputation: 7527
You could add a toplevel window under the root object, make root invisible and then handle the icon events to hide or show the toplevel window.
root = tkinter.Tk()
top = tkinter.Toplevel(root)
top.overrideredirect(1) #removes border but undesirably from taskbar too (usually for non toplevel windows)
root.attributes("-alpha",0.0)
#toplevel follows root taskbar events (minimize, restore)
def onRootIconify(event): top.withdraw()
root.bind("<Unmap>", onRootIconify)
def onRootDeiconify(event): top.deiconify()
root.bind("<Map>", onRootDeiconify)
window = tkinter.Frame(master=top)
window.mainloop()
Upvotes: 9
Reputation: 1339
I make no claim about this being the 'correct' way to do it, but see if this works for you:
try:
from tkinter import *
except ImportError:
from Tkinter import *
class NewRoot(Tk):
def __init__(self):
Tk.__init__(self)
self.attributes('-alpha', 0.0)
class MyMain(Toplevel):
def __init__(self, master):
Toplevel.__init__(self, master)
self.overrideredirect(1)
self.attributes('-topmost', 1)
self.geometry('+100+100')
self.bind('<ButtonRelease-3>', self.on_close) #right-click to get out
def on_close(self, event):
self.master.destroy()
if __name__ == '__main__':
root = NewRoot()
root.lower()
root.iconify()
root.title('Spam 2.0')
app = MyMain(root)
app.mainloop()
Upvotes: 10