From pykde Tue Mar 03 14:32:00 2009 From: Philippe Fremy Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:32:00 +0000 To: pykde Subject: Re: [PyQt] QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage VistaX64 Message-Id: <49AD3F60.3040301 () freehackers ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=pykde&m=123609129226205 I asked on qt-interest and discovered a windows setting to disable tooltips in the system tray: http://blogs.msdn.com/haikb/archive/2006/06/21/642033.aspx That solved my problem. Not sure it applies to Vista but have a look. cheers, Philippe Ian Jones wrote: > My test boxes are vanilla vista sp1 x64 installs, with all the updates > and just those two applications (python,pyqt) installed. As I > originally thought it could be some sort of conflict. > > Ian > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Philippe Fremy wrote: >> Ian Jones wrote: >>> I'm curious if other people have been able to use this feature successfully. >>> >>> Computer specs: >>> Python 2.6.1 (32bit) (python.org) >>> PyQt 2.6-gpl-4.4.4-2.exe (from riverbank website) >>> >>> Running the examples/desktop/systray/systray.pyw that came with pyqt >>> >>> The window opens, icons appear in the system tray, change icon etc but >>> the balloon message never appears. >>> >>> The docs say it is supported on 'All supported versions of Windows' >>> and I am assuming Vista is on that list but I couldn't find the actual >>> list to compare it to. >> I've got the exact same problem, but on windows XP. >> >> Since the same program produces different output on my or on a different >> computer, I guess it's somehow related to the computer configuration. >> But I could not find anything related to showing messages in the systray >> in the control panel. >> >> Since we both have the issue, maybe we can identify the source of the >> problem by checking something common in our configuration ? >> >> I am running virtual desktop manager from Microsoft, maybe that's what >> is causing the problem. Are you running any kind of software that could >> alter systray behavior ? >> >> cheers, >> >> Philippe >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com >> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt >> > > ' > _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt