Close app when icon is clicked

[Vadersapien]

Hello all,

I would like to know if and how I can close my AutoIt app when it's icon is clicked (instead of opening another one).

[exodius]

Do you mean make it so your script can only have one instance of it open at a time?

If so, look into the _Singleton command.

[Vadersapien]

No I want it to work like this:

You click the icon --> Application opens

You click the icon again(While the app is still open) --> Application closes

Edited November 5, 2009 by Vadersapien

[Mison]

#include <guiconstants.au3>

If WinExists("Test 1000") Then
    WinClose("Test 1000")
    Exit
EndIf

GUICreate("Test 1000")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then Exit
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

[Achilles]

If you try Mison's suggestion it may not work because you might now have a window. However, you could use the same idea he suggested with using ProcessExists and ProcessClose instead of the Win* commands he had.

[Vadersapien]

If you try Mison's suggestion it may not work

Yeah I tried that myself...it was the first thing I thought of...and it didn't work...

I'll have a go at ProcessExists and ProcessClose...but would this work with multiple instances of the application.

[Mison]

If you try Mison's suggestion it may not work because you might now have a window. However, you could use the same idea he suggested with using ProcessExists and ProcessClose instead of the Win* commands he had.

I thought about that too, but I don't have enough experience in working with ProcessExists and ProcessClose.

I use the script I had posted to check if my application(with GUI) is already running, and will wxit if that is true.

[Mison]

oh and by the way, you'll have to compile it first before you can test it because Scite won't allow you to run the same script if it's already running.. but I'm sure you all already know that

[Achilles]

Yeah I tried that myself...it was the first thing I thought of...and it didn't work...

I'll have a go at ProcessExists and ProcessClose...but would this work with multiple instances of the application.

I don't think it would work with multiple instances. Processes started from the same .exe file have the same process name from what I remember. Each process has it's own individual PID number; but I'm not sure how that would help.

[exodius]

So like this? (Must be a compiled script, won't work in SciTE for obvious reasons)

_CloseProcess (@ScriptName)

While 1
    Sleep (100)
WEnd

Func _CloseProcess($varProcess)
    $varClosedProcess = 0
    $PList = ProcessList()
    For $x = 1 to $PList[0][0]
        If StringInStr ($PList[$x][0], $varProcess) Then
            If $PList[$x][1] <> @AutoItPID Then
                $varClosedProcess = 1
                ProcessClose ($PList[$x][1])
                Sleep (100)
            EndIf
        EndIf
    Next
    If $varClosedProcess = 1 Then Exit
EndFunc

Edited November 5, 2009 by exodius