How can I refresh the system tray?

[Christopher Blue]

Recently I have written a script to kill all open instances of AutoIt. However, by doing so, they leave their icons in the system tray until I mouse over them. I was wondering if there is a DLLCall or otherwise that will allow me to force a systray refresh before my "kill" script exits itself?

[Christopher Blue]

I have found some information here. I shall check it out and reply back.

[Christopher Blue]

It seems that I could simply program my script to mouseover the systray and then return to it's previous spot before my script exits but it seems like a half-hearted solution compared telling the system tray itself to refresh.

[Jon]

Try WinClose on the hidden autoit window inside - that should cause Autoit to close nicely.

[Christopher Blue]

How do I find those hidden AutoIt windows? A search for AutoIt3 and AutoIt3.exe both find nothing.

[SlimShady]

Here's an example you could use.

;Put this in the script you want to shutdown later

AutoItWinSetTitle(@ScriptName)

;Use this to shutdown the other script

WinClose("filename of the script")

[Christopher Blue]

Thank you for the tip SlimShady! I have been able to finish my AutoIt Killer script:

AutoItKiller.au3:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 3)
AutoItWinSetTitle("AutoIt Killer"); Give this script a different name so it doesn't kill itself off

$window_name = "AutoIt v3"

While (WinExists($window_name))
    WinClose($window_name)
WEnd

This works well for the most part but will prove imperfect if I start naming my AutoIt script windows. But I have not had to yet and if I do I shall deal with it on a case-by-case basis.

edit: Actually I could just name my AutoIt scripts with a standard prefix like "Christopher Blue's *blah* *blah*". That would allow me to successfully search and close all AU3 windows without losing the ability to differentiate between them for programming purposes. So I spoke too soon I guess...your method rocks SlimShady!

Edited November 7, 2004 by Christopher Blue