Keep it all in .NET. You can easily write a Windows Forms application to display a tray icon and display notifications as and when something happens in the web service (you’d probably need a timer to do the polling). There are plenty of articles around that will show you how to do this. Here’s one … Read more
Those are two questions, actually: Adding a tray icon can be done with Win32 API. Example: SysTrayIcon.py Hiding the cmd.exe window is as easy as using pythonw.exe instead of python.exe to run your scripts.
Example in MSDN forum Here’s a quick example to show how to minimize to the notification area. You need to add references to the System.Window.Forms and System.Drawing assemblies. public partial class Window1 : System.Windows.Window { public Window1() { InitializeComponent(); System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon ni = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon(); ni.Icon = new System.Drawing.Icon(“Main.ico”); ni.Visible = true; ni.DoubleClick += delegate(object sender, … Read more
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 … Read more
As of Java 6, this is supported in the SystemTray and TrayIcon classes. SystemTray has a pretty extensive example in its Javadocs: TrayIcon trayIcon = null; if (SystemTray.isSupported()) { // get the SystemTray instance SystemTray tray = SystemTray.getSystemTray(); // load an image Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(“your_image/path_here.gif”); // create a action listener to listen for default … Read more
GetLastInputInfo. Documented at PInvoke.net.
The code project article Creating a Tasktray Application gives a very simple explanation and example of creating an application that only ever exists in the System Tray. Basically change the Application.Run(new Form1()); line in Program.cs to instead start up a class that inherits from ApplicationContext, and have the constructor for that class initialize a NotifyIcon … Read more