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wickyd
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Hi folx

I m running a program called TrayIt which allows me to send programs to the systray once minimized.

I created a script, which runs on startup, to load TrayIt followed by Google Chrome. My problem is, I do not know how to minimize Chrome via the Run command.

This loads Chrome, but the window is maximized:

Run("C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application", @SW_MINIMIZE)

I also tried running a shortcut, but Autoit seems to ignore .lnk files:

Run("D:\Startup\Chrome.lnk")

The next step is:

WinSetState ( "title", "text", flag )

but Chrome doesn't seem to have a "title", nor "text".

How do I solve this problem?

Thank you.

Regards,

wickyd

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I just got google chrome and when I use Autoit Window Info, it says that the title is "New Tab - Google Chrome".

try this:

WinSetState ("New Tab - Google Chrome", "", @SW_MINIMIZE)

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use the class info

chrome's class is "Chrome_XPFrame" but I guess that if you have vista you will get something like "Chrome_VistaFrame" but I don't know

maybe using regular expressions the issue can be solved :)

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@Pain:

Thank you for pointing me to this. This however did not work:

ShellExecute("Chrome.lnk", "", "D:\Startup\", "", @SW_MINIMIZE)

@pigeek:

Thank you so much! I am new to AutoIt and was not aware of the Window Info tool. Your method has worked. I realise now that I could have just looked at the taskbar to see the title of the window :)

Here is the code that works:

Run("C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application")
WinWait("New Tab - Google Chrome", "")
WinSetState ("New Tab - Google Chrome", "", @SW_MINIMIZE)

@torels:

Thank you for showing me another possibility.

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For completeness, I have been testing this with logging off and on again and I noticed some strange behaviour. This code works consistently:

Run("C:\Program Files\TrayIT\TrayIt!.exe")
Run("C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application")
WinWait("New Tab - Google Chrome", "")
WinSetState ("New Tab - Google Chrome", "", @SW_MAXIMIZE)
WinSetState ("New Tab - Google Chrome", "", @SW_MINIMIZE)
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