Running a Tkinter window and PysTray Icon together

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I'm building a tkinter gui project and i'm looking for ways to run a tray icon with the tkinter window.
I found Pystray library that does it, But now i'm trying to figure it out how to use this library (tray Icon) together with tkinter window,
I set it up when the user exit winodw it's only will withdraw window:
self.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', self.withdraw)
I want to bring it back with the tray icon.. anyone know how to do it?
EDIT:untill now I just wrote this code so far (they're not running together but it's also fine):

from pystray import MenuItem as item
import pystray
from PIL import Image
import tkinter as tk

def quit_window(icon, item):
    icon.stop()
    #window.destroy()

def show_window(icon, item):
    icon.stop()
    #window.deiconify()

def withdraw_window(window):    
    window.withdraw()
    image = Image.open("image.ico")
    menu = (item('Quit', quit_window), item('Show', show_window))
    icon = pystray.Icon("name", image, "title", menu)
    icon.run()

def main():
    window = tk.Tk() 
    window.title("Welcome")
    window.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', lambda: withdraw_window(window))
    window.mainloop()
main()

@stovfl https://pythonhosted.org/pystray/ brief: Python library for tray icon on taskbar — Osher, Feb 23 '19 at 10:05
Do you run your `tkinter` app within `pystray`? Search [Q&A pystray](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bpython%5D+pystray) — stovfl, Feb 23 '19 at 10:22
@stovfl I edited the question, that's where I've managed to get this far — Osher, Feb 23 '19 at 10:57

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '19 at 11:21

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Finally I figure it out,
Now I just need to combine this with my main code, I hope this code will help to other people too...

from pystray import MenuItem as item
import pystray
from PIL import Image
import tkinter as tk

window = tk.Tk()
window.title("Welcome")

def quit_window(icon, item):
    icon.stop()
    window.destroy()

def show_window(icon, item):
    icon.stop()
    window.after(0,window.deiconify)

def withdraw_window():  
    window.withdraw()
    image = Image.open("image.ico")
    menu = (item('Quit', quit_window), item('Show', show_window))
    icon = pystray.Icon("name", image, "title", menu)
    icon.run()

window.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', withdraw_window)
window.mainloop()

answered Feb 23 '19 at 11:21

Osher

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I don't know why this answer has not received more votes. Everywhere you just find that it is not possible to do this. Excellent contribution. – Ariel Montes Mar 09 '21 at 11:45
I agree, this is awesome! – S. Jacob Powell Apr 11 '21 at 08:32
Actually this solution is not "running together". In my interpretation "running together" is running tkinter and pystray concurrently, without stopping any of then to start another. I think the only solution to this is using threads but I want to know what is the right way to do this since in tkinter and pystray documentation, both of then say that the code must run in the main thread. – JonLord May 30 '21 at 17:29

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