Tray Icon Problem

[Sly01]

Hi Everyone,

We are using AutoIT on an automated system that runs some rendering constantly.

• If I push and updated of my EXE AutoIT script, I kill the current running one and start the new version.
• I'm running a Task Schedule to run the script every x amount of time (that keeps running until a new one is started)
• If I want the script to run for a long time, I might have to kill the process and restart it to reset it's functionality (because it stops interacting with the windows).

For any of those situations, for example, the process is stopped and a new one is restarted, There will be a new Tray Icon for every time it has to restart.

It's not too much of a problem, but if I have a problem on my server and it has to restart a few times (problem with a file or something causing a bad loop) then my tray gets full and I'm gettin error messages.

I don't want to keep the tray icon alive, is this a normal behavior? Or should the icon disappear after a while: I have to open the tray item and move my mouse over the icons for them to disappear.

[Jos]

Guess you hard killing the running script which will always leave an trayicon untill you hover over it. 

Build it so you allow it to be closed properly by sending a winclose message to it.

[Danp2]

Here are a few older solutions that you may want to check out to see if they still work --

 

[Jos]

I actually meant something simple like this:

; Demo killing previous occurences of this script

$aList = WinList("This is the running version of my app")
For $i = 1 To $aList[0][0]
    $rc = WinClose($aList[$i][1])
    ConsoleWrite('Closing WinHandle:' & $aList[$i][1] & '   rc:' & $rc & '    >Error code: ' & @error & @CRLF)
Next

AutoItWinSetTitle("This is the running version of my app")
While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

 

[Sly01]

15 hours ago, Jos said:

I actually meant something simple like this:

; Demo killing previous occurences of this script

$aList = WinList("This is the running version of my app")
For $i = 1 To $aList[0][0]
    $rc = WinClose($aList[$i][1])
    ConsoleWrite('Closing WinHandle:' & $aList[$i][1] & '   rc:' & $rc & '    >Error code: ' & @error & @CRLF)
Next

AutoItWinSetTitle("This is the running version of my app")
While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

 

OMG This is SICK!!!!

This is exactly my kind of solution!!!