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[paede]

How i can make a systray text (like the windows clock)
I want to publish so infos by a systray text (eg. Temp, Mem usage or else)

[ILL.1]

Look under Menu in the help file. There is a section on how to change the icon and tooltip. Also there are a few examples at the bottom of that help page. Give it a go and see if this is what you're looking for.
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[jonny]

The systray is a really difficult area for AutoHotkey... you can change the icon and the tooltip and that's about it. The only application I've ever known to be able to change the clock text is Tclock/Tclock2.

[Chris]

You could try something really crude like a SplashText window that stays on top of a certain section of the task bar. You could also use the on-screen-display example shown at the bottom of the Gui page to make a transparent window, which should cause "floating text" to appear on top of the task bar.

[peejay]

I found an implementation in Visual Basic here, where a form is placed in the systray, and text is shown on it.
In the featured program the original systray (icons and clock) are hidden beneath the form, but it should be possible to place the form next to the contents of the systray (haven't tried that though).
The program also shows a way to widen the systray by adding fake icons to it (those could next be covered by the form).

The program uses lots of API calls, so I'm not so sure the functionality could be ported to AHK, but maybe it gives somebody some ideas?
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[peejay]

I have been trying to access the system tray, but ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd points to the Taskbar, and I haven't found a way to access the SysTray itself. See the following snippet:

[Chris]

[Serenity]

Thanks for posting that link peejay, I hadn't thought of using transparent icons in the systray as spacers. I know TClock2 can change the clock text and redraws the systray width accordingly, so perhaps the source code might be of use to someone?
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[peejay]

I'm still looking into this, but not making much progress. I don't program in C, can't much read it, and I am still too inexperienced in AHK to make it do what I want.

One idea is to (ab)use TClock2 itself.
To show what I mean, download a copy of TClock2 (I simply followed the link Serenity provided to get there).
Download TClock2, run it, and access TClock2 Properties. open the tab labelled 'Format', and check 'Custom Format'. Enter something like "Hello World !! "hh:nn in the edit box, and hit 'Apply' (by using double quotes you can enter literal text, by adding hh:nn the current time is still shown by the tray clock).
By changing the text in the edit box, and applying, you can change the text shown in the systray.

Just a raw idea. I don't think I could make AHK do this (yet ). Anybody?
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