http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/desktop/popular/2017-01-28T21:43:00-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-03-29T20:45:57-07:00FB36http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172570/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579041-shortcut-utility/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579041 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172570/">FB36</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/desktop/">desktop</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/directories/">directories</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/directory/">directory</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tkinter/">tkinter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utilities/">utilities</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utility/">utility</a>). </p> <p>I dislike filling my desktop with shortcut icons in Windows. This code enables creating shortcuts in a CSV file.</p>

2017-01-28T21:43:00-08:00Miguel Martínez Lópezhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4189907/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578885-draggable-desktop-note-or-sticky-notes-in-tkinter/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578885 by <a href="/recipes/users/4189907/">Miguel Martínez López</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/desktop/">desktop</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/draggable/">draggable</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/note/">note</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sticky/">sticky</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tkinter/">tkinter</a>). Revision 14. </p> <p>Inspired by "A-Note": <a href="http://a-note.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://a-note.sourceforge.net/</a></p> <p>And based on these tricks: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11544187/tkinter-resize-text-to-contents" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11544187/tkinter-resize-text-to-contents</a></li> </ul> <p>But here I am using my improved version of the automatic resized Text widget: <a href="https://code.activestate.com/recipes/578886-automatic-resized-text-widget-tkinter/" rel="nofollow">https://code.activestate.com/recipes/578886-automatic-resized-text-widget-tkinter/</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6104991/transparent-colors-tkinter" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6104991/transparent-colors-tkinter</a></li> </ul> <p>Features:</p> <ul> <li>The note is draggable</li> <li>You can minimize the note at the left side of the screen or maximize it</li> <li>You can hide the contents of the note</li> <li>Hotkeys to save content of note to a file, open content of file inside a note and show help.</li> </ul> <p>Please, comment me whether you see some bug.</p>