How to create menu and update icon in Pystray

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Pystray is a Python library that allows you to create system tray icons and menus for cross-platform applications. To create a menu and update the icon using Pystray, you need to follow these steps:

Install the pystray library using pip:
```
pip install pystray
```

Create a Python script and import the necessary modules:

python
import pystray

from PIL import Image



# Create a function to be executed when the menu item is clicked

def on_quit(icon, item):

    icon.stop()



# Load an image to be used as the tray icon

image = Image.open("path_to_icon_image.png")



# Create a menu

menu = (

    pystray.MenuItem("Quit", on_quit),

)



# Create the system tray icon

icon = pystray.Icon("name_for_icon", image, "Title", menu)

Start the tray icon event loop:
```
python
icon.run()
```

To update the icon dynamically, you can change the image attribute of the icon object and then call the update_icon method:

python
# Update the icon image

new_image = Image.open("path_to_updated_icon.png")

icon.icon = new_image

icon.update_icon()

Here's a complete example of how to create a menu and update the icon using Pystray:

python
import pystray

from PIL import Image



def on_quit(icon, item):

    icon.stop()



image = Image.open("icon.png")



menu = (

    pystray.MenuItem("Quit", on_quit),

)



icon = pystray.Icon("MyIcon", image, "My App", menu)



def update_icon():

    new_image = Image.open("updated_icon.png")

    icon.icon = new_image

    icon.update_icon()



icon.run()

Replace "path_to_icon_image.png" and "path_to_updated_icon.png" with the actual paths to your icon images.

Remember that Pystray is cross-platform, so this code will work on both Windows and other platforms that support system tray icons.