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meter · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

I am not sure if this has been done before, so I decided to post it here. It was inspired by PStart, but I wanted something to let me organize things more "horizontally" rather than "monolithically".

Traycut is a small utility that lets you launch shortcuts (i.e., Windows ".lnk" files) from the system tray. To use the script, drop the shortcuts you want to access through Traycut's system tray icon into its "shortcuts" directory. Then start the script, right-click on the tray icon, and select the name of the shortcut you want to launch.

#SingleInstance is disabled so you can have multiple copies of Traycut in their own directories and with their own shortcuts. You can even change the tray icon for each instance. This makes it useful to organize your shortcuts under different icons.

The script is pretty short:

TucknDar · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 47 Location: Oslo, Norway

nice one.

really simple, but cool!

savbill · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 8

Mithat, Thanks for posting this. It is a very interesting program. Makes a great script organizer. Very clean and accessable interface that is easy to configure and maintain.

I wanted to limit the number of tray Icons that are showing with multiple ahk scripts running, but still have an indication of what scripts were active. I came up with the idea to use a checkmark by the menu item to show the shortcut script selections. It will also close a running script if the shortcut 'checked item' is selected. I add the #NoTrayIcon directive in my script files to hide the tray icons. In the example code I separated Notepad in the list to isolate it from the script shortcuts. A line is added to open notepad that does not use a shortcut file.

If you use a startup shortcut to first start any scripts you want active then start Traycut (example code) it will show the checks by any already running scripts in the shortcut list.

Example of modified script which checks menu list items, and will open or close the scripts. Run from within the Traycut Directory.

meter · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

Savbill, very cool adaptation.

I just uploaded a small revision (v0.11) to my original script that changes the click handling so that a single left or right click on the tray icon brings up the menu. It's a bit of a kludge, so if anyone knows of a cleaner way to do this, please let me know. I also tweaked the order of the menu items.
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savbill · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 8

meter, That is a cool addition. It is much easier to left-click to show and left-click to select menu items. It can be hard to explain the *right-click* to some users.

I see where adding the ShowTrayMenu: sub and "Traycut" default menu item is necessay to make the Left mouse click work properly. It also can serve as a Menu Title so you can change the default item name to differentiat menus.
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Homer · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 69 Location: Dallas, Texas

Why am I getting this error when attempting to launch a program?

Thanks,
Homer

meter · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

meter · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

Homer · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 69 Location: Dallas, Texas

Meter,

Problem Solved. Based on the questions you asked me, the path was the issue. When getting the error, the script was being launched from:

meter · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

meter · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 29

Homer:

For whatever it's worth, I tried two different installs of Traycut on two different multidrive systems, and it worked fine on each of them.

The first system was a laptop running WinXP-Home. I installed Traycut on a USB stick using the same exact directory structure as your D: drive install. (The only difference was the the USB stick came up as the E: drive.)

The second system was a desktop machine running WinXP-pro with two hard drives. I installed Traycut on the non-system drive again using the same path as your example (except for the drive letter, again E: in this case.)

So, anything more that could help me figure out what's going on with your install would help.

P.S. You're not running Windows 98 are you? I haven't done any testing on W98 because I don't have access to a W98 machine.
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Homer · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 69 Location: Dallas, Texas

Meter,

I am running a WinXP system but you're not going to buy this.... I deleted the C:\Traycut directory and launched the script from my D:\My Documents\AutoHotkey\Others Work\TrayCut\Traycut... and it works fine.

I did upgrade from AHK 1.0.44 to 1.0.46 after I placed my error post, maybe that's why it's working now. I'll reboot and lauch the script from some various directories but the AHK version change may have been the bit.

Homer
P.S. I can't thank you enough for jumping in as quickly as you did. I've been looking for a script like yours for quite some time and I can't thank you enough.