Crate tray_icon_ex

Expand description

tray-icon lets you create tray icons for desktop applications.

Platform-specific notes:

On Windows and Linux, an event loop must be running on the thread, on Windows, a win32 event loop and on Linux, a gtk event loop. It doesn’t need to be the main thread but you have to create the tray icon on the same thread as the event loop.
On macOS, an event loop must be running on the main thread so you also need to create the tray icon on the main thread.

On Linux, gtk, libxdo is used to make the predfined Copy, Cut, Paste and SelectAll menu items work and libappindicator or libayatnat-appindicator are used to create the tray icon, so make sure to install them on your system.

Arch Linux / Manjaro:

pacman -S gtk3 xdotool libappindicator-gtk3 #or libayatana-appindicator

Debian / Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libxdo-dev libappindicator3-dev #or libayatana-appindicator3-dev

Examples

use tray_icon_ex::{TrayIconBuilder, Icon};

let tray_icon = TrayIconBuilder::new()
    .with_tooltip("system-tray - tray icon library!")
    .with_icon(icon)
    .build()
    .unwrap();

use tray_icon_ex::{TrayIconBuilder, menu::Menu,Icon};

let tray_menu = Menu::new();
let tray_icon = TrayIconBuilder::new()
    .with_menu(Box::new(tray_menu))
    .with_tooltip("system-tray - tray icon library!")
    .with_icon(icon)
    .build()
    .unwrap();

Processing tray events

You can use TrayIconEvent::receiver to get a reference to the TrayIconEventReceiver which you can use to listen to events when a click happens on the tray icon

use tray_icon_ex::TrayIconEvent;

if let Ok(event) = TrayIconEvent::receiver().try_recv() {
    println!("{:?}", event);
}

You can also listen for the menu events using MenuEvent::receiver to get events for the tray context menu.

use tray_icon_ex::{TrayIconEvent, menu::MenuEvent};

if let Ok(event) = TrayIconEvent::receiver().try_recv() {
    println!("tray event: {:?}", event);
}

if let Ok(event) = MenuEvent::receiver().try_recv() {
    println!("menu event: {:?}", event);
}