Tray menu activation

[Melba23]

Good evening (or at least it is here!),

I would be grateful for some help regarding a problem I am having with the tray menu. As a relative newcomer to AutoIt, I have recently been writing a script to act as a wrapper for Random Mp3 Player, a simple mp3 player which does not display the ID3 info from the file being played. Thanks to the excellent help file and this BB I have managed to solve the various problems I have so far encountered (some the most complicated were; getting the ID3 tag data, having different icons on the taskbar depending on the state of the script, hiding the RandomPlayer icon on the taskbar). I have now created a satisfactory script to display the ID3 info, and even managed to duplicate most of the functions of the original application, but one thing is causing me a real headache.

RandomPlayer lets you adjust the volume in 2 ways: by pressing the right/left mouse button on its tray icon with shift selected, and by using "Vol Up/Down" submenu entries on its traymenu. I have duplicated the tray icon click by finding the RandomPlayer icon (via ControlGetHandle, _GUICtrlToolbar_ButtonCount and _GUICtrlToolbar_GetButtonText) and using _GUICtrlToolbar_ClickButton. However, when I tried to put volume up/down items on the traymenu in the AutoIt script, I ran into a problem I have been unable to solve.

When selecting these entries on the original RandPlayer traymenu, the volume is adjusted as long as the left button is pressed on the entry, which remains visible as long as the button is pressed. I cannot find anything in Help or on this BB which lets me do the same with the AutoIt generated traymenu. This only appears to action events once the mouse button is released, at which point the traymenu disappears! The best I have managed is to do so far is to generate a single click on the RandomPlayer icon with each menu selection, which means that it requires multiple "right-click on the icon to get the traymenu and then click on the menu item" actions to adjust the volume. Not exactly the smooth continuous action I am looking for!

Is there any way to duplicate the action of the RandomPlayer application in AutoIt? That is to have a traymenu item which acts for as long as it is selected? I have played about with _IsPressed, but of course the mouse button is already released to activate the menu item. I tried changing from Tray OnEvent to TrayGetMessage, but I still came across the problem of having to release the mouse to activate the menu item.

So, any offers?

Melba23

P.S. I know that I can get another player which would display the ID3 data for me, I am just using this project to explore the possibilites of AutoIt - which are very impressive!