How to create a system tray popup message with python? (Windows)

Question

I'd like to know how to create a system tray popup message with python. I have seen those in lots of softaware, but yet difficult to find resources to do it easily with any language. Anyone knows some library for doing this in Python?

Answer 1

With the help of the pywin32 library you can use the following example code I found here:

from win32api import * from win32gui import * import win32con import sys, os import struct import time  class WindowsBalloonTip:     def __init__(self, title, msg):         message_map = {                 win32con.WM_DESTROY: self.OnDestroy,         }         # Register the Window class.         wc = WNDCLASS()         hinst = wc.hInstance = GetModuleHandle(None)         wc.lpszClassName = "PythonTaskbar"         wc.lpfnWndProc = message_map # could also specify a wndproc.         classAtom = RegisterClass(wc)         # Create the Window.         style = win32con.WS_OVERLAPPED | win32con.WS_SYSMENU         self.hwnd = CreateWindow( classAtom, "Taskbar", style, \                 0, 0, win32con.CW_USEDEFAULT, win32con.CW_USEDEFAULT, \                 0, 0, hinst, None)         UpdateWindow(self.hwnd)         iconPathName = os.path.abspath(os.path.join( sys.path[0], "balloontip.ico" ))         icon_flags = win32con.LR_LOADFROMFILE | win32con.LR_DEFAULTSIZE         try:            hicon = LoadImage(hinst, iconPathName, \                     win32con.IMAGE_ICON, 0, 0, icon_flags)         except:           hicon = LoadIcon(0, win32con.IDI_APPLICATION)         flags = NIF_ICON | NIF_MESSAGE | NIF_TIP         nid = (self.hwnd, 0, flags, win32con.WM_USER+20, hicon, "tooltip")         Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, nid)         Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, \                          (self.hwnd, 0, NIF_INFO, win32con.WM_USER+20,\                           hicon, "Balloon  tooltip",msg,200,title))         # self.show_balloon(title, msg)         time.sleep(10)         DestroyWindow(self.hwnd)     def OnDestroy(self, hwnd, msg, wparam, lparam):         nid = (self.hwnd, 0)         Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_DELETE, nid)         PostQuitMessage(0) # Terminate the app.  def balloon_tip(title, msg):     w=WindowsBalloonTip(title, msg)  if __name__ == '__main__':     balloon_tip("Title for popup", "This is the popup's message") 

Answer 2

I recently used the Plyer package to create cross-platform notifications without pain, using the Notification facade (it have many other interesting things that are worth to take a look at).

Pretty easy to use:

from plyer.utils import platform from plyer import notification  notification.notify(     title='Here is the title',     message='Here is the message',     app_name='Here is the application name',     app_icon='path/to/the/icon.' + ('ico' if platform == 'win' else 'png') )