[Solved enough] Hide Tray Icon (with empty title) of program I ShellExecute

[Lope]

Currently Trying to get the bitmap index of another program's tray icon using. See

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Try comment and uncomment the 3rd line... I can't get the Param in x86.

What I'm trying to do is hide the tray icon of a program I run in my script.

The difficulty is that the program creates a tray icon with a blank title. (there can be various tray icons with no title, so I can't hide ALL icons with blank titles)

So my solution was to make an array of the Params (belonging to visible icons with empty titles) before I shellexecute the program, then see what new icon appears who's param is not in the array, then hide that Icon.

If anyone has a cleverer solution, (like determining a Tray Icon's owning process) let me know

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#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_icon=Silverblade.ico
;#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=n
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
 
#Include <GuiToolBar.au3>
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Quit")
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Global $hTray = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Shell_TrayWnd]")
Global $hToolbar = ControlGetHandle($hTray, "", "[CLASSNN:ToolbarWindow321]")
Global $iCnt = _GUICtrlToolbar_ButtonCount($hToolbar)
ConsoleWrite("Debug: $iCnt = " & $iCnt & @LF)
Global $iCmdVolume = -1
Global $sMsg, $sText, $iCmd
For $n = 0 To $iCnt - 1
    $sMsg = "Index: " & $n
    $iCmd = _GUICtrlToolbar_IndexToCommand($hToolbar, $n)
    $sMsg &= "  CommandID: " & $iCmd
    $sText = _GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonText($hToolbar, $iCmd)
    If StringInStr($sText, "Volume") Then
  $iCmdVolume = $iCmd
  Msgbox(0,"",_GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonParam($hToolbar,$iCmd));Returns 0 in x86 but gives a param on x64?
EndIf
    $sMsg &= "  Text: " & $sText
    ConsoleWrite("Debug: " & $sMsg & @LF)
Next
ConsoleWrite("Debug: $iCmdVolume = " & $iCmdVolume & @LF)
Global $bolVisible = True
While 1
    $bolVisible = Not $bolVisible
    If $bolVisible Then
        _GUICtrlToolbar_SetButtonState($hToolbar, $iCmdVolume, $TBSTATE_ENABLED)
    Else
        _GUICtrlToolbar_SetButtonState($hToolbar, $iCmdVolume, $TBSTATE_HIDDEN)
    EndIf
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd
Func _Quit()
    _GUICtrlToolbar_SetButtonState($hToolbar, $iCmdVolume, $TBSTATE_ENABLED)
    Exit
EndFunc

Edited October 2, 2011 by Lope

[sleepydvdr]

Add this to the top of your script:

#NoTrayIcon

[Lope]

You misunderstood my question. I want to remove the tray icon from another application that I shellexecute.

Another solution would be if I could find the handle of Icons in the systray.

[Lope]

I found a solution.

I just set all tray icons with blank titles to ' ' before shellexecuting the EXE. Then after Shellexecuting the EXE I look for a tray icon with a blank title and hide it.

The only thing that snagged me is when I change Tray Icon titles with _GUICtrlToolbar_SetButtonText() (even using 'test' etc) The new tooltip was not displaying. That threw me off, until I realized even though it doesn't update in the system tray, it still works for my purposes Maybe a tray refresh of some kind would sort that out.

Heres my working code:

#Include <GuiToolBar.au3>
Global $params[100]
Global $paramcount=0
Global $p
Func FindBlankTrayIcons($musthide=False)
Local $hSysTray = ControlGetHandle('[Class:Shell_TrayWnd]', '', '[Class:ToolbarWindow32;Instance:1]')
;Msgbox (0,"toolbar",$hToolbar )
For $n = 0 To _GUICtrlToolbar_ButtonCount($hSysTray) - 1
  Local $iCmd = _GUICtrlToolbar_IndexToCommand($hSysTray, $n)
  Local $sText = _GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonText($hSysTray, $iCmd)
  Local $visible= _GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonState($hSysTray, $iCmd)==$TBSTATE_ENABLED
  If ($sText=='') And $visible Then
   If Not $musthide Then
    _GUICtrlToolbar_SetButtonText($hSysTray, $iCmd,' ')
   Else
    _GUICtrlToolbar_SetButtonState($hSysTray, $iCmd, $TBSTATE_HIDDEN)
   EndIf
  EndIf
Next
EndFunc

Edited October 2, 2011 by Lope

[Lope]

Okay, that last bit of code didn't work reliably either.

The reason I wanted to get Icon Handles is I thought the Command numbers might be different every time you use _GUICtrlToolbar_IndexToCommand.

But it seems calling that function a few times within a brief space of time, it gives the same numbers. (good)

So here is the new, reliable code

#Include <GuiToolBar.au3>
#Include <Array.au3>
Local $hSysTray = ControlGetHandle('[Class:Shell_TrayWnd]', '', '[Class:ToolbarWindow32;Instance:1]')
 
Local $TrayIconList[200]
Global $TrayIconListCount
 
Func FindTrayIcons($store=False)
If $store Then $TrayIconListCount=0
Local $count
For $n = 0 To _GUICtrlToolbar_ButtonCount($hSysTray) - 1
Local $iCmd = _GUICtrlToolbar_IndexToCommand($hSysTray, $n)
Local $visible= _GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonState($hSysTray, $iCmd)==$TBSTATE_ENABLED
If $visible Then
$count += 1
If $store Then
$TrayIconList[$TrayIconListCount]=$iCmd
$TrayIconListCount +=1
EndIf
EndIf
Next
Return $count
EndFunc
 
Func HideNewTrayIcons()
For $n = 0 To _GUICtrlToolbar_ButtonCount($hSysTray) - 1
Local $iCmd = _GUICtrlToolbar_IndexToCommand($hSysTray, $n)
Local $visible= _GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonState($hSysTray, $iCmd)==$TBSTATE_ENABLED
If $visible Then
If _ArrayFindAll($TrayIconList,$iCmd) ==-1 Then _GUICtrlToolbar_SetButtonState($hSysTray, $iCmd, $TBSTATE_HIDDEN)
EndIf
Next
$TrayIconListCount=0
$TrayIconList=0;free memory
EndFunc

and the code that calls it

FindTrayIcons(True)
ShellExecute($path)
For $i = 1 to 4000;wait for tray icon to appear
Sleep(1)
If FindTrayIcons()>$TrayIconListCount Then
HideNewTrayIcons()
ExitLoop
EndIf
Next

works like a beast!

Edited October 2, 2011 by Lope

[Lope]

I'm having another issue...

The program I'm running changes its tray icon between two different icons while its running.

I'd like to find out which tray icon it has at a given time.

I've tried using this:

_GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonBitmap in the same way as the other functions above, but it returns 46 for both icons. Sometimes when I run the app it returns 47 for both icons. I ran the app again now and it returned 45 for both icons.

Useless...

Does anyone have any ideas?

How can you get an image handle from the Toolbar Control number?

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Edit, Okay I've worked around this problem by That tells me when its busy or not, with enough accuracy.

Edited October 2, 2011 by Lope