Re^3: Icon generation on the fly

If you can't build Gtk2, then you could use SystemTray::Applet. It doesn't require Gtk2, and it doessn't require any specialized knowledge of the user's toolkit.

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use SystemTray::Applet;

my $num = 10;
my $applet = SystemTray::Applet->new( 
    "text" => $num,
    "callback" => sub { 
        my ($self) = @_; 
        $self->{"text"} = $num;
    }
);
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Re^4: Icon generation on the fly by chessgui (Scribe) on Feb 01, 2012 at 05:36 UTC
SystemTray::Applet can't be built in the legal way (it detects a circular dependency with SystemTray::Applet::Win32). If the module is built with force it prints '10' on STDOUT then freezes. If I build SystemTray::Applet::Win32 with force and use it instead of SystemTray::Applet it creates an empty icon in the system tray over which if I hover with the cursor it pops up a bubble saying '10'. I would rather like it to represent '10' in the tray permanently.	[reply]

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Re^4: Icon generation on the fly
by chessgui (Scribe) on Feb 01, 2012 at 05:36 UTC

SystemTray::Applet can't be built in the legal way (it detects a circular dependency with SystemTray::Applet::Win32). If the module is built with force it prints '10' on STDOUT then freezes. If I build SystemTray::Applet::Win32 with force and use it instead of SystemTray::Applet it creates an empty icon in the system tray over which if I hover with the cursor it pops up a bubble saying '10'. I would rather like it to represent '10' in the tray permanently.

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