System Tray Items

[gandalfthewhite]

Lets say I have msn messenger running on my system tray. I want to right click on it and select an option (say signout for example). Can I do this with autoit? If so, how?

[TheCreator]

this sounds like something you can experiment with.

Check out the winzip tutorial under autoIt help, and tutorials.

[TheCreator]

this sounds like something you can experiment with.

Check out the winzip tutorial under autoIt help, and tutorials.

[PsaltyDS]

Lets say I have msn messenger running on my system tray. I want to right click on it and select an option (say signout for example). Can I do this with autoit? If so, how?

Download PaulIA's AutoIt Library and install it. Then look at the Toolbar commands in his help file. This will give you a demo of some basic data from your SysTray (which is just a toolbar):

#include <A3LToolBar.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
$hToolBar = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Shell_TrayWnd]", "")
$hSysTray = ControlGetHandle($hToolBar, "", "ToolbarWindow321")
$BtnCnt = _Toolbar_ButtonCount($hSysTray)
$BtnData = ""
For $i = 0 To $BtnCnt - 1
    $BtnCmdID = _Toolbar_IndexToCommand($hSysTray, $i)
    $BtnTxt = _Toolbar_GetButtonText($hSysTray, $BtnCmdID)
    $BtnData &= "Index: " & $i & "   CommandID: " & $BtnCmdID & "   Text: " & $BtnTxt & @CRLF
Next
    
MsgBox(64, "Result", $BtnData)

[Paulchen]

It's work but not for all Items.

On my installation the power, network and volume Items are not displayed. Is there mayby a Vista problem?

[MisterBates]

Lets say I have msn messenger running on my system tray. I want to right click on it and select an option (say signout for example). Can I do this with autoit? If so, how?

PsaltyDS give the right pointer, but in practice, it's quite difficult to get working - given menu delay times, enabled/disables menu items (depending on whether MSN/Live messenger is signed in) etc.

For a working example, check out this link (also in my .sig)