How to click a button from a taskbar tray icon ?

[Juvigy 31]

I have outlook 2007 icon in the tray.

I manage to right click on it using:

_GUICtrlToolbar_ClickButton($hSysTray_Handle, $iSystray_ButtonNumber, "right")

Which opens the menu: Please see attachment.

Does anyone now how to click one of the buttons there ? Lets say "Open Outlook" ?

The autoit window tool doesnt show anything.

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Edited October 19, 2009 by Juvigy

[PsaltyDS 27]

You can probably Send("o") to it, or some other hot key.

[Juvigy 31]

Yes , that would work for this particular case but there are cases that the shortcut is not so easy to find and also some cases that the keyboard shortcut only selects the "button"(like in the attachment) or there is no shortcut at all. Is there a better more reliable way?

[Authenticity 12]

For the first one you can do something like:

_GUICtrlToolbar_ClickButton($hSysTray_Handle, $iSystray_ButtonNumber, "right")
Send("{UP 2}{ENTER}")

; For the second it'll probably be:
Send("{UP}{ENTER}")

[Juvigy 31]

10x , but i want to use something different than "send" / "controlsend".

Is there another way?

[RagsRevenge 1]

10x , but i want to use something different than "send" / "controlsend".

Is there another way?

I don't believe so.

Out of interest, how are you getting a value for $iSystray_ButtonNumber?

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[Juvigy 31]

First use _GUICtrlToolbar_ButtonCount to get all numbers and then use _GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonText to match the text of the icon i need to the number.

[Authenticity 12]

I think that in this case Send/ControlSend functions are sufficiently reliable methods for such task. You can try this approach, put a global boolean variable to tell the callback function whether it should call your function with the handle of the new popup menu window and it's hmenu and then do your stuff. Another approach is to use _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemRect() and click it. Again, Send/ControlSend are sufficient.

Edited October 20, 2009 by Authenticity

[Juvigy 31]

10x

_GUICtrlMenu_GetItemRect() doesnt look good to me. I will try the winhooks approach.