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Windows system tray popups using Python

Posted on October 15, 2013 by David Vassallo

I modified Simon Brunning's epic example (original can be found here) to include an example of how to have a windows system tray icon display a popup on demand. Here's the coding: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xySFrLgSAiTfymgCQvW4bpsva_rzkwOqkcsoYWhN0a0/edit?usp=sharing The differences are: Added a new method to the sysTrayIcon class called "set_popup". This is where win32 api does it's magic … Continue reading Windows system tray popups using Python

Inotify, ubuntu and trash

Posted on September 15, 2013November 4, 2013 by David Vassallo

I ran into an issue while monitoring an ubuntu machine's file system activity using python's implementation of Inotify (pyinotify) and it's awesome big brother, the "watchdog" python library. If you havent checked out watchdog for monitoring file system events - you're seriously missing out. Catch up on it here: http://pythonhosted.org/watchdog/ https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog The watchdog library worked … Continue reading Inotify, ubuntu and trash