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How is this tray icon throbber done? - JackDinn - Mar-05-2018 I writing a tray widget/notifier for Manjaro KDE and i would like to use this tray icon throbber effect. Anyone know how? (using PyQt5) [attachment=378] RE: How is this tray icon throbber done? - Larz60+ - Mar-05-2018 The way I would do it is to have two icons identical size, with the two views of the throbbed icon. Use a timer event (not sleep) to toggle the icon change on each iteration. RE: How is this tray icon throbber done? - JackDinn - Mar-05-2018 Yea that was what i thought, or maybe (if its even possible) use a .gif but there seems to be some method to do it because you can set any icon you like in the settings of the example i have shown and it still applies the throbbing effect to it even though its a single icon, so there is something somewhere other than messing with multiple icons and looping them on a timer type thing. RE: How is this tray icon throbber done? - Larz60+ - Mar-05-2018 a .gif .ico or .png will do, just don't make it too large or it will have strange flicker effect. RE: How is this tray icon throbber done? - JackDinn - Mar-05-2018 I'll have to try and dig through the octopi-notifier-frameworks code and see how he's done it because he is not using multiple icons, as i say there must be a proper method to do it because you can change the icon and it still applies the throb. Hate digging through someone else's code, especially when its Cpp ^^ RE: How is this tray icon throbber done? - JackDinn - Mar-05-2018 well i suspect its got something to do with these snipets of code iv found but i have not a clue what to make of them when talking about pyqt5 from octopi-notifier code Wrote:#ifdef KSTATUS https://api.kde.org/frameworks/knotifications/html/classKStatusNotifierItem.html#a5a724a726f39f52275ee62e1fe2ff539 Quote:enum KStatusNotifierItem::ItemStatus So to me it looks like in Cpp there is a KStatusNotifierItem::NeedsAttention Enumerator that i believe might be doing the work of throbbing the icon but after that im lost how to impliment that info into python RE: How is this tray icon throbber done? - Larz60+ - Mar-05-2018 found this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eea.icons/2.5 RE: How is this tray icon throbber done? - JackDinn - Mar-05-2018 great stuff, that I can understand and will take a good bash at using, Thank you :) |