On May 15, 5:54 pm, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jimmy wrote: > > Hi, all > > > I have been trying to use wxPython to design a GUI that will be > > displayed on the panel on the top of desktop. that is when the > > program starts, it will dwell on the panel to display some dynamic > > information. > > > can anyone tell me in wxPython how to do this? thanks! > > AFAIK it cannot be done in pure wxPython. The reason is that your > "panel" is part of the window manager. What kind of "panel" are you > talking about anyway? Under Microsoft Windows it is called "the tray". > In Gnome it is "panel" indeed. In KDE it might also be panel, there is > OS X etc. They are quite different. For example, under MS Windows you > cannot embed an application into the tray (other than an icon). > > They are all different window managers, based on different client libs > (MS gui, GTK, Qt etc.). wxPython is designed to be platform independent, > and it does not support special, platform dependent features. (Well it > does a few...) > > You need to tell us what kind of system are you using? Then we can tell > you where to start. For example, there are extension modules for writing > Gnome panel applications. (Well, it is not wxPython but GTK.) > > BTW the idea is good: we could have "panel" support in wxPython, but > since the interface of these panels (and how they should be programmed) > is very different on different platforms, it would not be easy to implement. > > Laszlo
Thanks for your reply! I am using Linux+gnome. Actually, what I want is simply a text-region on the panel and display some dynamic information on it. Is it hard to do it ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
