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[SKAN]

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How to include an Icon in your script ?

The following template script demonstrates the loading of an icon included in the script itself and sets the

Tray Icon
Titlebar Icon
Alt-Tab menu Icon

[Laszlo]

The above script changes the Alt-TAB icon, the taskbar icon and the title bar icon to "i", but leaves the tray icon blank. Is it a Vista problem?

[SKAN]

[Laszlo]

Maybe an appropriate call to Shell_NotifyIcon with NIM_SETVERSION (0x00000004) helps?

[SKAN]

NumPut( hIcon,NID,20 ) was missing in the code, now added. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I posted tested code from PSPad and it was a matter of ^a ^c and ^v .
I would understand if I had missed the starting or ending line, but this, I keep guessing.

Also I tested my other HDD indicator, and it works fine in Vista.

[heresy]

Thanks SKAN for kindly answer as always

i don't get it perfectly yet
but i know that you're the person who can explain complicated things as easy as possible.
if i can't understand yours, i shall not understand anything else.
so i'll deal with it until i can get it mine
THANK YOU SO MUCH!

it aren't goes to your great Tips & Tricks collection?
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[jfty.009260]

Crazy scripting indeed...brilliant.

[rickly]

SKAN, your Crazy Scripting scripts are truely ingenious and usefull, but I think I found a bug in this one. I could not get this script to function as described (hICon always returned 0, with ErrorLevel and A_LastError = 0). After some investigation I found that the second param of the dll call to CreateIconFromResourceEx had the wrong value. After changing the second param from 0 to nSize, all is working well.

Thanks for all your contibutions.

[SKAN]

[Hybridx24]

I'm using Vista and I was using the .Ico replacement technique (which is actually brilliant ) and I'm having a few issues... I can't get it to work without disabling my whole Joystick configuration (my script makes my 360 controller work as a mouse). Whenever the Icon shows up in the tray, the controller doesn't work, but when I modify it, the controller works but there is no tray icon (which defeats the whole purpose of the code...). Any ideas as to what be going wrong?

[Hybridx24]

Here's the code that doesn't work (the custom icon shows up, but the joystick doesn't work):

[Hybridc24]

God I'm making an account after this post...

What I forgot in my previous post; This is what I removed to make the joystick work but the icon doesn't show up now:

[SKAN]

Dear Hybrid,

• Do not use Menu,Tray, Tip after calling Shell_NotifyIcon() - it resets the icon to AHK default ( Green-H ).
  
• Also note, that suspending / pausing the script will reset the tray icon, and so, you have to handle it from your code
  
• You are not using a GUI and you may remove the redundant calls to set Alt-Tab and Titlebar icons.

Here is an example on how to workaround Pause:

[Hybrid]

Well, the pause icon part of the script didn't seem to work, but I don't really care since you managed to fix everything that I wanted in the first place.

[SKAN]