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Hi,

what I don't really like about "process, close, bla.exe" is that it just kills the process but leaves the program's tray icon in the tray... do you know any way to prevent that?

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Hi,
well it's the same behaviour, if you kill the thread with taskmanager.
The Explorer doesn't recognize, that the tread had died.

I have only 2 very bad "solutions"
1. Kill all explorer-tasks and start a new one. The tray is recreated. But this means that all explorerwindows will close and some programs does not draw its trayicon again so you can "loose" some icons (Really bad idea)

The second idea: If you move your mouse over the icon, it vanishes.
Perhaps you can remember the current mouseposition, gets the coordinates of the trayicon, kill the thread, move the mouse to that position and moves it back.

I hope somebody has better ideas

Ciao
Micha

WinSet Redraw, , ahk_class TrayNotifyWnd
(Untested)

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@Micha:
Hehe, nice, I thought about something like that too but then thought there MUST be some better way

@PhiLho:
Thanks, sounds perfect, but doesn't work

I tried


and



and even



..but nothing works

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TrayNotifyWnd1 seems to refresh after you move the mouse over it. You can use MouseMove to simulate this.

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I'm not sure I can follow... since I'm using the Windows task bar on the left side of the desktop my (currently 15) tray icons are piling up in 3 icon rows... so you suggest to zig-zag the mouse over all the possible tray icon positions with MouseMove?

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The doc. suggests to try to hide and unhide the window if WinSet Redraw fails... Still untested...

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I was just to ask the same thing & I stumble on this thread

Now I'm using the MouseMove solution but thats not foolproof, somehow refreshing the systray would do it but I've no idea how to do that (exept for killing explorer.exe & restarting it but that's a bit overkill ).

More ideas are welcome...

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...have you both tried all manner of asking the process to close besides Process, Close...get a handle to a window & do WinClose on it or do PostMessage, WM_CLOSE or WM_QUIT...or something...anything is better than Process, Close...what programs do you need to close so hard?

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In my case it are 2 processes that start along with my TV software, when I close PCTV the processes keep running.

EDIT: I'm not on the cpu that has the script running but I think this would work, TNX!

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You are totally right, I'm now using your WM_QUIT approach, thanks!

Too bad that neither that removes the tray icon...

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Buried in the manual somewhere was this method I've been using of closing windows, which is supposed to be the same as clicking on the window close button (the X):

Strange, it removes the tray icon on my scripts.
There was 1 script where I had to loop it 2 times before the icon disappeared.

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...what prog? Also...instead of zig-zagging you could make an image (screenshot) of only the tray icon...then use ImageSearch to find it on screen & MouseMove to the icon & back...to cause it to disappear from a mouse over...if nothing else ends up working...


...ok...

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Thanks for your help, I still hope Chris will come up with a RefreshTray command though...

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