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Is there a way to have a (animated) GIF as a system tray icon with pyqt?

I created a static image (PNG) as a tray icon with pyqt.

Ditto with a GIF image results in a static tray icon. Can it animate in the system tray with pyqt?

QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon.__init__(self, parent)
self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon("Image.gif"))
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Use QMovie

to play an animated gif and update the tray icon on every new frame event:

m_icon = new QSystemTrayIcon();
m_icon->show();
m_gif = new QMovie(":/animated.gif");
connect(m_gif, SIGNAL(frameChanged(int)), this, SLOT(updateIcon()));
m_gif->start();

...



void MyWidget::updateIcon()
{
    m_icon->setIcon(m_gif->currentPixmap());
}

Sorry for the C ++ example, I don't have PyQt.

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