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widow
PostPosted: September 27th, 2009, 5:27 pm 
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TrayIt! allows to save precious Taskbar space for minimized windows. For each application which applies TrayIt! it creates a small icon in the System Tray. (System Tray area is located near the Clock). When application's window is minimized this icon represents the application on the Taskbar instead of the regular "minimized rectangle".

It is particularly useful for background tasks you typically keep running on your PC all day long like your favorite E-mail client, Real Player, etc..

Using TrayIt!

TrayIt! runs on Windows 95/98/Me, NT/2000/XP and does not require any installation.
Simply create a new folder and place TrayIt!.exe and TrayIt!.dll there. When started, TrayIt! will show a dialog box with a short explanation how to use it. You may choose to load TrayIt! on system startup by selecting "Option" and checking "Load TrayIt! on StartUp" box.


You can temporarily put any window in the system tray by keeping down the <Ctrl> button when minimizing the window.

To always keep window in the system tray when minimized, click with the RIGHT mouse button on the corresponding icon created in the tray in the previous step and check "Place in System Tray" in the popup menu.

Clicking with the right mouse button on the minimize icon will bring TrayIt! context menu for this window. Just check "Place in System Tray" in the popup menu to make window always go to the tray.


Please note that context menu will work only for the standard minimize icon and will not pop-up if the program use skins like MS Media player

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PostPosted: September 27th, 2009, 5:57 pm 
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It's a free program; the link is www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm


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PostPosted: September 27th, 2009, 11:29 pm 
Chris wrote:
It's a free program; the link is www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm
Sorry i forgot. :oops:

www.trayit.com redirects to the URL you mentioned.

In the text i qouted i noticed an error. When minimizing a window to tray, one should press the shift key. Not the ctrl key.


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PostPosted: September 28th, 2009, 9:54 am 
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fwiw, Sean posted an AHK function WinTraymin.ahk that has worked very well for me -- based on the description of TrayIt (haven't tried it), I think WinTraymin does about the same. (I assigned a mouse gesture to it (via Gestures.ahk by Lexikos) for a hotkey.)

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PostPosted: September 28th, 2009, 12:58 pm 
pajenn wrote:
fwiw, Sean posted an AHK function WinTraymin.ahk that has worked very well for me -- based on the description of TrayIt (haven't tried it), I think WinTraymin does about the same. (I assigned a mouse gesture to it (via Gestures.ahk by Lexikos) for a hotkey.)
I have used autohotkey for this kind of work before.
Not that script you link to, but another one i modified. But TrayIt saved me alot of hours.
TrayIt have saveable profiles, can group similar windows with "?" and "*", classes, hiding from taskbar only and if you want you can hide windows completely whenever it shows up, and ofc can hide console windows.
I think it could be better tough, with hooks lower down.


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PostPosted: March 9th, 2010, 5:55 am 
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Hi.

This is my first post to the Forum. I've been through some of the tutorials in-depth, skimmed through other ones, and have also used such analogues to AHK as NirCmd and EZMacros, so pardon me when I mix and match terms and lingo, please?

My OS is Windows XP Pro SP3, just as an FYI.

TrayIt! and AHK: the two do not get along well; that's been my experience at any rate.

I tried an AHK script that emulated the Mac OS X/GNOME Linux "double-click on titlebar collapses window" behaviour, and TrayIt! kept bouncing the windows back up, especially those that were, by application, in the running "set" in its Profile window.

And just tonight, while trying out a script that launched an app on my desktop using the Win key as part of its trigger, TrayIt! hid the windows I was collapsing while that AHK was up and running. I had to call up the Profile window to see how many were missing from the system tray. I honestly thought I'd closed them. That's one of the reasons I'd like to "get beyond" TrayIt! and recommend against using it alongside AHK

How customisable are the AHK scripts that do the same thing? Would one have to cobble together one's own "Sets" by AHClass or something? Or are there "buddy" scripts that automate or simplify this process?

Just curious. If the answer to the last question is yes, or even if it isn't, I'll stow TrayIt! and run the scripts instead.

BZT


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PostPosted: September 29th, 2011, 4:43 pm 
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...why not try a legacy Mac OS-style "window shade" effect?

http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
(Freeware & Open-Source; .zip, .EXE installer and source code all available.)

I have yet to test this against anything, much less TrayIt. But I figure a kiss is as good as a kick. If you can't emulate Mac OS X with a click on the titlebar, maybe the solution is to go further back in time.

Good times.

BZT

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PostPosted: November 20th, 2011, 3:27 pm 
SilversleevesX wrote:
...why not try a legacy Mac OS-style "window shade" effect?

http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
(Freeware & Open-Source; .zip, .EXE installer and source code all available.)

I have yet to test this against anything, much less TrayIt. But I figure a kiss is as good as a kick. If you can't emulate Mac OS X with a click on the titlebar, maybe the solution is to go further back in time.

Good times.

BZT
Actually there is atleast one script that does this already.

This one is with a dll:

TitleButton 0.31 by majkinetor
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19430


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