[python-win32] making icons on task bar require double-click

[Robert Liebeskind]

I apologize.  I think I misread what you are trying to accomplish.  It  
sounds like you want to do this for icons that you did not create.  I  
do not think this is possible with wxPython.

On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Robert Liebeskind wrote:

> This can be accomplished with the wxPython lib.
>
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>> Randy Syring wrote:
>>> Is it possible, with a python program, to run through the task bar
>>> icons and change them so that their current single-click event would
>>> get transferred to a double-click event?  I click them by mistake
>>> sometimes and its very annoying to wait for the program to open just
>>> so I can close it.  I haven't been able to find a way to accomplish
>>> this natively so I figured a python script set to run when my user
>>> logs in and the windows extensions might do the trick.
>>
>> In short, no.  This requires an injectable window hook, and there  
>> is at
>> present no way to do that kind of window hook in Python.
>>
>> How do you happen to click on these accidentally?  Perhaps there are
>> other ways to solve this.  For example, you can configure the  
>> taskbar so
>> that it hides itself unless you hover the mouse at the bottom of the
>> screen.  Or, you can drag the taskbar to any other edge of the  
>> screen.
>> If you find yourself hovering around the bottom edge most of the  
>> time,
>> perhaps moving the taskbar to the top would solve that.
>>
>> -- 
>> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>
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