Creating Tkinter windows on the taskbar

Question

I want my program to appear on the taskbar, but it did not have a traditional window. How can i do this? I know self.overrideredirect (1) , however this removes my program from the taskbar.

This is for Windows 7.

Answer 1

I am not saying that this is the “right” way to do this, but see if this works for you:

try:
    from tkinter import *
except ImportError:
    from Tkinter import *


class NewRoot(Tk):    
    def __init__(self):
        Tk.__init__(self)
        self.attributes('-alpha', 0.0)

class MyMain(Toplevel):
    def __init__(self, master):
        Toplevel.__init__(self, master)
        self.overrideredirect(1)
        self.attributes('-topmost', 1)
        self.geometry('+100+100')
        self.bind('<ButtonRelease-3>', self.on_close)  #right-click to get out

    def on_close(self, event):
        self.master.destroy()


if __name__ == '__main__':

    root = NewRoot()
    root.lower()
    root.iconify()
    root.title('Spam 2.0')

    app = MyMain(root)
    app.mainloop()

Answer 2

You can add a top-level window below the root object, make root invisible, and then handle icon events to hide or show the top-level window.

root = tkinter.Tk()
top = tkinter.Toplevel(root)
top.overrideredirect(1) #removes border but undesirably from taskbar too (usually for non toplevel windows)
root.attributes("-alpha",0.0)

#toplevel follows root taskbar events (minimize, restore)
def onRootIconify(event): top.withdraw()
root.bind("<Unmap>", onRootIconify)
def onRootDeiconify(event): top.deiconify()
root.bind("<Map>", onRootDeiconify)

window = tkinter.Frame(master=top)
window.mainloop()