How to hide a program?

[jvdb]

Hi all,

I've created a program that receives files and opens the corresponding
program (for example adobe acrobat). However, when started, i would
like to see nothing of the running program. I only want to see the
program that will be opened.
Is it possible to start a program 'hidden' or minimized to at least
the system tray? And, if yes., could some one help me on this?

Thanks already!

Jeroen

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi all,

I've created a program that receives files and opens the corresponding
program (for example adobe acrobat). However, when started, i would
like to see nothing of the running program. I only want to see the
program that will be opened.
Is it possible to start a program 'hidden' or minimized to at least
the system tray? And, if yes., could some one help me on this?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean here, but I guess you want the
command-window suppressed. You can do so by naming your scripts *.pyw,
which will invoke pythonw.exe instead. That has no command-window.

Diez

 

[jvdb]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean here, but I guess you want the
command-window suppressed. You can do so by naming your scripts *.pyw,
which will invoke pythonw.exe instead. That has no command-window.

Diez

Hi Diez,

I forgot to mention that i have created a Windows executable of the
script.
What i want is to run the application minimized in the system tray or
totally hidden.

regards,
Jeroen

 

[Larry Bates]

Hi all,

I've created a program that receives files and opens the corresponding
program (for example adobe acrobat). However, when started, i would
like to see nothing of the running program. I only want to see the
program that will be opened.
Is it possible to start a program 'hidden' or minimized to at least
the system tray? And, if yes., could some one help me on this?

Thanks already!

Jeroen

You can do this with:

import win32process

STARTUPINFO=win32process.STARTUPINFO()
STARTUPINFO.dwX=0
STARTUPINFO.dwY=0
STARTUPINFO.dwXSize=800
STARTUPINFO.dwYSize=600
execute_target="enter program to run here"
commandLine=None
processAttributes=None
threadAttributes=None
bInheritHandles=0
dwCreationFlags=0
currentDirectory=None
#
# Start the program
#
win32process.CreateProcess(execute_target,
commandLine,
processAttributes,
threadAttributes,
bInheritHandles,
dwCreationFlags,
newEnvironment,
currentDirectory,
STARTUPINFO)


-Larry Bates

 

[jvdb]

You can do this with:

import win32process

STARTUPINFO=win32process.STARTUPINFO()
STARTUPINFO.dwX=0
STARTUPINFO.dwY=0
STARTUPINFO.dwXSize=800
STARTUPINFO.dwYSize=600
execute_target="enter program to run here"
commandLine=None
processAttributes=None
threadAttributes=None
bInheritHandles=0
dwCreationFlags=0
currentDirectory=None
#
# Start the program
#
win32process.CreateProcess(execute_target,
commandLine,
processAttributes,
threadAttributes,
bInheritHandles,
dwCreationFlags,
newEnvironment,
currentDirectory,
STARTUPINFO)

-Larry Bates

Hi Larry,

The thing is, i don't want to see anything of my program, just the
launched program.
I already have the program working. But when i create an executable of
it with py2exe and start it, i don't want to see that it is running,
perhaps just in the systemtray. That is my problem.

thanks!
Jeroen

 

[Thorsten Kampe]

* jvdb (Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:22:01 -0700)

The thing is, i don't want to see anything of my program, just the
launched program.
I already have the program working. But when i create an executable of
it with py2exe and start it, i don't want to see that it is running,
perhaps just in the systemtray. That is my problem.

http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/hstart.html

 

[David Wahler]

The thing is, i don't want to see anything of my program, just the
launched program.
I already have the program working. But when i create an executable of
it with py2exe and start it, i don't want to see that it is running,
perhaps just in the systemtray. That is my problem.

Try renaming your main script to have a .pyw extension as Diez said,
or use the --windows option when running py2exe.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-December/241319.html

-- David

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

I forgot to mention that i have created a Windows executable of the
script.

How did you create it? Using py2exe? Use windows=your_program.py instead
of console=... in your setup script.

 

[jvdb]

Hi all,

thanks very much! it was indeed how i compiled to .exe
After using the windows= , my issue was solved. Thanks to all who took
the time on helping me.

Jeroen

 

[jay graves]

* jvdb (Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:22:01 -0700)
http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/hstart.html

I'm not the OP but this looks very useful to me.

Thanks.
....
Jay Graves