Mouse Events Of Wxpython Taskbaricon On Mac Osx Are Not Triggering

We are using TaskBarIcon of WxPython 2.9 on Mac OSX 10.8.5, currently we have a requirement to grab all Left, Right and Double Click Events when user clicks on TaskBarIcon of our A

Solution 1:

Taskbar icon implementation is OS dependent. The following app binds all events supplied in wxPython so you can use it for testing.

import wx
from wx.lib.embeddedimage import PyEmbeddedImage

task = PyEmbeddedImage(
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classMainWindow(wx.Frame):
    def__init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

        self.panel = wx.Panel(self)

        self.tbicon = wx.TaskBarIcon()
        self.tbicon.SetIcon(task.GetIcon(), "Test")
        self.tbicon.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DOWN, self.LD)
        self.tbicon.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_UP, self.LU)
        self.tbicon.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DOWN, self.RD)
        self.tbicon.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_UP, self.RU)
        self.tbicon.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_LEFT_DCLICK, self.LDC)
        self.tbicon.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DCLICK, self.LDC)

        # This is a synonym for either wx.EVT_TASKBAR_RIGHT_DOWN # or UP depending on the platform, use this event macro # to catch the event which should result in the menu being # displayed on the current platform.
        self.tbicon.Bind(wx.EVT_TASKBAR_CLICK, self.Click)

        self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.Cleanup)

        self.Show()

    defClick(self, e):
        print("Click")
        e.Skip()

    defLD(self, e):
        print("LD")
        e.Skip()

    defLU(self, e):
        print("LU")
        e.Skip()

    defRD(self, e):
        print("RD")
        e.Skip()

    defRU(self, e):
        print("RU")
        e.Skip()

    defLDC(self, e):
        print("L-DClick")
        e.Skip()

    defRDC(self, e):
        print("R-DClick")
        e.Skip()

    defCleanup(self, e):
        self.tbicon.Destroy()
        wx.Exit()

app = wx.App(False)
win = MainWindow(None)
app.MainLoop()

On Windows 7, for example:

• Left Down is emitted together with Left Up and not alone
• Right Down is emitted correctly
• Click is emitted with Right Up (Windows default for menu)
• Double Clicks work just fine

If it does not work on OS X or the behavior you get seems to be wrong for your platform, consider reporting a bug at http://trac.wxwidgets.org/.