wxAppBar for wxPython

wxAppBar provides a wrapper for the Win32 AppBar control for use with wxPython. AppBars (also called Task Bars) are given a reserved area on one side of the screen so that they are always visible. The wxAppBar control is built using ctypes (no C/C++ code), so can be readily customised.

Enhancement requests, bug-reports and bug-fixes are welcome on the project page. The wxAppBar is based on this Visual Basic tutorial (from www.thescarms.com).

Installation

wxAppBar has two major dependencies (beyond a recent version of wxPython itself), wxoo and ctypes. All three packages are distributed as Python distutils packages, so to install, either choose a platform specific binary, or unpack the source distribution and run:

setup.py install

in the top level of each of the unpacked directories. You can get the wxAppBar control from the project's download page.

Documentation

At the moment, most of the documentation for the module is in the form of the auto-generated PyDoc reference API. You can find a usage sample in the demoappbar.py module.

Changes

Version 0.9.0

Initial Open Source release

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