Question

I’m trying to minimize a window to the tray, but it seems it refuses to hide from the taskbar. I’ve spent a little time and distilled the problem code down to this. It’s not mcuh so I’m wondering if I need something else to hide my app to tray in Windows 7.

import sys, os
from PyQt4 import uic 
from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow, QApplication

class MyClass(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent = None):
        QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent)
        self.ui = uic.loadUi(os.path.join("gui", "timeTrackerClientGUI.ui"), self)
    def hideEvent(self, event):
        self.hide()
    def showEvent(self, event):
        self.show()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    wnd = MyClass()
    wnd.show()
    app.exec_()

It seems the application icon does hide but then another one pops up, If I click the taskbar icon multiple times I can get these two icons flickering, looks kind of like this for a splitsecond before the first one hides:

Answer 1

It took a quite ugly hack to get it working but here’s the final code if anybody is interested, ph is my platform-specific module, you can use platform.name or similar function instead:

def hideEvent(self, event):
    self.hide()
    if ph.is_windows():
        self.hidden = True
        self.setWindowFlags(Qt.ToolTip)
def showEvent(self, event):
    if ph.is_windows() and self.hidden:
        self.setWindowFlags(Qt.Window)
        self.hidden = False
    self.show()