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I am looking for a way to automate going to the system tray and double-clicking the OpenVPN tray icon. This seems like a straightforward task, but I can't figure out how to do it with AHK yet Any pointers would be appreciated.

There's two ways to do this and I can only hint at one. The first is to write a simple script that moves the mouse to the tray icon, and double clicks. This is a poor method at best as the mouse will always go to the same section of the screen and click whatever happens to be there. The other way you'l have to learn how to access programs in memory, loop through them untill you find your specific program, and make it visible.

The reason I bothered to write this down is this: your either asking for a very simple script or a very advance one.

Try this: go to your search window next to your url address bar (mine is set to google) and type "site:autohotkey.com <text you want to search within that site>" and add something like system tray access or whatever. Most likely something like this has already been thought of, tested, working, and available to the community.

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Yes, I tried searching the forums and googling, and I did find lots of rather advanced stuff related to tray, but not quiet what I was seeking... Also, I didn't think that such a simple task would involve such complexity, but I might have been wrong about that.

You could use the ImageSearch command to find the icon on the screen. This will give you the co-ordinates of the icon so that you can instruct AHK to click on it.

Extract Informations about TrayIcons
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic17314.html

see postmessage example for right click

Won't simply running the exe do automatically the same as a double click on the tray icon?

Edit: Flak's suggestion below takes the prize (come to think of it that is how I do it too with some programs)

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flak's suggestion is brilliant, but for some reason doesn't work

Here's what I get from window spy when I double-click on the tray icon:
>>>>>>>>>>( Window Title & Class )<<<<<<<<<<<
OpenVPN Connection (client)
ahk_class #32770
....

Not sure why it's failing to match on OpenVPN...

Running .exe doesn't work -- openvpn says it's already running and barfs.

this

I had the same question and found this thread... and the solution (thanks to this thread )

I am using Everything, but not as an admin. It starts automatically with windows into the system try and I have to say "Yes" to the UAC...).

Now I want to open this programm in the system tray via shortcut, not by using the mouse via double click.

This code works for me:


I got the values from TrayIcon.ahk (see link above to http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic17314.html respectively http://www.autohotkey.net/~Sean/Scripts/TrayIcon.zip)

1025 = Message ID for the system tray icon of Everything
0 = uID
0x0203 = WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK


Bye, Carlos