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brotherS · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 147

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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Micha · Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 440 Location: Germany

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 Smile

Ciao
Micha

PhiLho · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:54 am Post subject:

WinSet Redraw, , ahk_class TrayNotifyWnd
(Untested)
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brotherS · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 147

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

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

I tried

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

TrayNotifyWnd1 seems to refresh after you move the mouse over it. You can use MouseMove to simulate this.
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brotherS · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 147

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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PhiLho · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject:

The doc. suggests to try to hide and unhide the window if WinSet Redraw fails... Still untested...
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Whitespliff · Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 33

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

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 Laughing

).

More ideas are welcome...
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JSLover · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

Whitespliff · Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 33

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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brotherS · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 147

evl · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1239

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):

Whitespliff · Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 33

JSLover · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject:

brotherS · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 147

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

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