Working with tray icons...

[Guest bjaber]

Hi,

I'm a newbie to AutoIT and I was wondering if I could get some assistance.

I have an application that is running in the tray (as an icon) but not in the taskbar. I can successfully "see" the running window (WinExist), but I want to "right-click" it and select "Exit" from the menu.

I don't think mouse coordinates will work for me as the many thousands of users would have different screen resolutions, task bar placements/sizes, etc.

Is there a way to "activate" a tray icon, right-click it, and then select an entry from the resultant right-click menu?

Kind regards,

--Basim S. Jaber

iPass Inc.

[Guest bjaber]

Major bummer. So far, I've not been able to find any scripting utility that can (I tried WinBatch and now AutoIT). Anyone have any suggestions?

--Basim

[Valik]

There are two reasons why you probably won't find any way to maninpulate a tray icon directly:

1) It's a freaking bitch to write code to do this. Unlike a lot of things, Microsoft did not supply programmers with a way to do this so it requires nasty little hacks and other tricks ending up with a large amount of confusing code for a "simple" feature.

2) 85% (in my experienced at least) of programs that have a tray icon also have a window that can be used to do everything that clicking the icon can do.