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I need to automate temporary disabling COMODO CIS Defense+ during backup run.
There is no commandline switch to do this, but can be done via taskbar tray-icon.

So I need a hint about the proper command(s) to code it myself.
I want to find the tray-icon with text 'COMODO Internet Security' and perform mouse-clicks on it/submenus. Is it possible with AHK?

I tried with AutoSCriptWriter and AU3-Spy, but did not succeed.

Since there's initially no window to focus on and send relative mouseclick coordinates to, my approach does not work

I want to do this:
Now I have automated my backups and Defense+ shows dozens of messages for me to decide to allow/disallow them. As I use Cygwin Linux-emulation under Windows, the tools should not universally be allowed, so I must disable Defense+ first or the backups won't run. I can do this manually via the GUI in taskbar 'Defense+ Security Level -> Disabled'.

Hi,
it is difficult to understand what you want to do. I suppose you want to "answer" dialogues with AHK?
Then make a list of all Dialogues and what you want to do with them. Use WindowSpy (ahk tray icon right click) and memorize all dialogue's ahk classes (if they are identicall additionla also their Window title)

You can then create a macro which answers those dialogues by sending keystrkes or mouseclick to the buttons or controls you like.
You can use WinWait to wait for a secific dialogue and you can use IfWinExist to see if it is there. Then you can use ControlSend,,KEYS,TARGET (omit second parameter)...

Hi UweD,

thanks for your reply.

I have read the tutorials,FAQs and basically know how to automate dialogs/Windows actions with AHK, but do not know how to operate on non-Windows, like the taskbar tray-icon:

I tested it this way:



=> Not working, the messagebox in the else-clause is shown.

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Output of WindowsSpy:
## right click on TrayIcon (the action I want) ##



Can I still automate this with AHK?

To understand this better, I have made a screenshot of the TrayIcon part and the opened menu I want to script:
http://neodor.com/auctions/TrayIcon_CIS_2-Monitors.PNG

The TrayIcon directly next to the windows clock (the shield icon) is the CIS icon I want to automate. Everything on the right side of the windows clock is the second monitor, so my desktop/working area is two panels wide.

I am interested in opening a trayicon menu aswell. In my case to safely remove a flash memory. I'll keep an eye on this topic

Tested and works



Dependency: You need Sean's TrayIcons()

Tested in XP SP2 and Works!



Dependency: You need Sean's TrayIcons()

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Thanks SKAN. I tested it and it flickers that menu, but it doesn't stay and it seems like it clicks the first item.

I am using WinXP SP2 aswell.

Does the flash Drive gets removed or not?

Thank you for posting the examples SKAN. This may be a dumb question, but by "dependency" do you mean that anyone who uses your examples should "#include" the dependency too, or is there some other (better) way/command to call the linked function?

I'm trying your method out with Ghost-It, a tiny stand-alone system tray based utility for making windows translucent.

But I have 2 issues:

1. There's an unusually long delay (~5 sec) until the penultimate line of my code below is implemented. That is, Ghost-It's tray menu pops up as soon as I hit the hotkey (Ctrl+Win+RightClick), but AHK does not "SEND {DOWN 2}{ENTER}" to the menu for another 5 seconds; I can click 'Un-Ghost' or press down-down-enter to select it faster myself. What's wrong with the code?



2. TrayIcon.ahk popup: How do I dismiss it automatically? And for that matter, am I using TrayIcon.ahk correctly by including it at the start of the script, or is there a better way?

I mean, if I run TrayIcon first to look up the values for Ghost-It's uID (10001), Msg (1224) and hWnd (2490766), then all I need is the code below:



The problem is that hWnd changes each time I restart Ghost-It, so that's why I've included TrayIcon.ahk in the script. But since it wasn't explicitly "included" in the other examples I've seen, I'm wondering if that's just something that's assumed to be obvious, or whether I missed something because I'm new to the forum and new to AHK?

@pajenn



You may copy/paste the TrayIcons() function into your script.



True!! I am unable to understand why this happens.. maybe Ghost-it is able to detect artificial clicks and slows down it!



In this case, you may use the #Include as the last line of your script to avoid the popup.



Good work! .. Use ahk_class instead of hard-coding the hwnd value, like in:

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thank you

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Hardware: 1.8 GHz laptop with 4 GB ram, Windows XP/SP3
Software: Prevx, Privatefirewall, KeyScrambler.

Sorry to reply late and thank you SKAN.

I tested the code and there's a popup, and in it the window for "cfp.exe" is shown, too. But all following commands are not executed anymore.

Update: I included the TrayIcon.ahk as you suggested last and it works!!
Great code, now finding out how to select specific menu.



Now I am trying myself to find out how to disable the menu item.

Thanks again, AutoHotKey is really impressive

No.. Thank you! I simplified Safely Remove Hardware

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