Minimize to system tray option (Windows)

[NodusCursorius]

Would love to see the window management options extend to allow minimizing the primary EDMC window to the System Tray (systray) instead of the Task Bar, please. This would also, naturally, remove it from the alt-tab listing since the program can already be interacted with via your hotkey feature.

[bodylinksystems]

I'm not sure about the intended hotkey behavior. I assigned it to INS key and I don't see anything happening unless I actually interact with the app on my other monitor. Do I even need to interact with it since it's going to update automatically anyway? Is the hotkey to start the app or what? I hear no sound on hotkey either.

[JoelleEmmily]

I would very much like to see this feature added.

[inorton]

@bodylinksystems when you dock the market update/edsm stuff is usually automatic unless you've turned that off in the EDDN tab

[j33p4meplz]

Would LOVE this feature added.

[AndreGeddert]

This one is a year old. I would also like to see this feature. Any Plans, developers?

[inorton]

Hmm, I might have a go, I've never really "needed" this feature myself

[AndreGeddert]

i would try it myself, but im very new to python. I would need hours or days. For an experienced python hacker this might be minutes of work :)

[inorton]

http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/SysTrayIcon.py.html looks useful

[inorton]

I've spent a few mins trying to get it to work without much luck.

[inorton]

I've used http://rbtray.sourceforge.net/ in the past, that might be useful

[inorton]

@AndreGeddert yup, rbtray looks actually pretty cool, you just right click on the minimise button, works with every app!

[AndreGeddert]

Just tried it. It works with many apps like putty or even windows file explorer, but dont seem to work with apps that have a customized minimise button like EDMC, the Oculus Rift Software and my DAW. All of the three have a custom minimise button. But thanks for the hint anyways.

[Leonick]

@AndreGeddert If you set EDMC to the default theme it has standard window controls and rbtray does work.

I'd much prefer if EDMC had this as an option instead of having to run a background app that somehow hooks into the system to allow it though.

[mIRCon]

I would also like minimize to system tray feature @Athanasius :)

[Seforian]

I would love this feature too, in the addition. Check box:

1. Start minimized system tray.
2. Start minimized when system starts.

[SweetyVolty]

win+R : shell:startup

enter

place a shortcut and done.

It will start every single startup till deleted or disabled at task manager.

And Athanasius sorry about my request, I didn't saw this one before posting mine and also thank you for maintaining the edmc <3

[Athanasius]

Note to self, this might do the job https://github.com/Infinidat/infi.systray

[A-UNDERSCORE-D]

May also be doable in plain tk according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56109891/minimize-the-window-tkinter-in-the-windows-system-tray

[SayakMukhopadhyay]

May also be doable in plain tk according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56109891/minimize-the-window-tkinter-in-the-windows-system-tray

I checked, the answer in that question is incorrect and is just telling the user to minimize to taskbar and not the system tray. Seems like many non windows people in that question don't know the distinction.

[Athanasius]

An implementation of this has now been merged into develop and will be in the next 5.0.0 pre-release (probably -beta7, as we need to do more Odyssey work once Alpha Phase 4 is up).

As requested, this is minimise to systray, and you'll need to set the new option on the 'Appearance' settings tab for it to do that, else current behaviour remains. 'Quit' from the systray (which will always be present) will close the entire program. 'Open' will restore the EDMarketConnector window if it's been minimised.

[Athanasius]

Unforunately we've now hit a snag with packaging infi.systray (actually one of its dependencies) with py2exe, so have had to comment out all of this code so as to get 5.0.0-beta7 built.

We'll report this upstream to py2exe and otherwise see if we can solve this for a future (pre-)release.

[Athanasius]

This is now only waiting on py2exe making a new release with the additional hooks in place to allow use of infi.systray.

[Athanasius]

Now available in https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/releases/tag/Release%2F5.2.2