How to catch files that drag & dropped on trey menu?

[Suppir]

Hello!

User drags & drops some files (or directories) to traymenu of the autoit script.

How to get full pathnames of dropped objects?

[PsaltyDS]

That's not a trivial problem.

The tray icon is just a button in a ToolbarWindow32 control. The control belongs to the desktop, not your AutoIt process, so I don't know that you can register the WM_DROPFILES message you would have to catch. If you look at TraySetOnEvent() in the help file you don't see a $TRAY_EVENT_DROPFILES as one of the supported special IDs.

[Suppir]

Yes, I understand.

But I think there is a way exists. Something like:

If IsPressed("01") And MouseOverTray() Then
     GetObjectsPathFromDropFiles()  # maybe there is a special dllcall exists to get this data??
Endif

Edited December 1, 2010 by Suppir

[James]

The tray icon is just a button in a ToolbarWindow32 control. The control belongs to the desktop, not your AutoIt process, so I don't know that you can register the WM_DROPFILES message you would have to catch. If you look at TraySetOnEvent() in the help file you don't see a $TRAY_EVENT_DROPFILES as one of the supported special IDs.

If that's the case, how you track right click menus?

[PsaltyDS]

If that's the case, how you track right click menus?

I think the desktop process that owns the control passes notifications to the window associated with the button. The point being that only messages the desktop process is designed to pass will get passed, and DROPFILES (plus the struct that would tell you what was dropped) does not appear to be one of them.

I am certainly not an API expert though, and smarter people can/will correct me if I'm wrong.

[James]

I think the desktop process that owns the control passes notifications to the window associated with the button. The point being that only messages the desktop process is designed to pass will get passed, and DROPFILES (plus the struct that would tell you what was dropped) does not appear to be one of them.

I'm not disagreeing with you, there is no default behaviour for tray dropping.

I have yet to see an application support it or even say it's possible. Whatever the OP is after is going to cause confusion and be rarely used if distributed to others, bar himself.

[Steveiwonder]

Hello,

I've played around with this before and this is as far as i got.

Pops messagebox when the mouse is released on the icon or something is "dropped" onto the icon. Although when you drag files over the icon you get the no entry simple or denied which ever way you look at it.

#include <Constants.au3>
#NoTrayIcon

Opt("TrayMenuMode",1)
Opt("TrayOnEventMode", 1)
TraySetOnEvent($TRAY_EVENT_PRIMARYUP, "MyFunc") ; register custom func
TraySetState()

While 1
    Sleep(10) ; useless loop
WEnd

Func MyFunc()

    MsgBox(32, "Title", "Replace messagebox with some awesome way to get what was in mouse?")
EndFunc

I'm sure you can register some external DLL to find what files have been selected by the mouse?

Steve

EDIT:

I dont know if this could be of any help, i havent looked just something i found in a text file with the above script

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742859.aspx#Drag_and_Drop_Events

Edited December 1, 2010 by Steveiwonder

[PsaltyDS]

There are work-arounds to see when the mouse is released on the icon, but nothing I've found goes on to get the file path(s) being dropped.

The page you linked to is for .NET DragDrop.Drop Attached Event, which is not much help to AutoIt, and the SysTray toolbar is not a .NET created object anyway.