Hide the AHK icon on InputBox dialogs

[HBinswanger]

I want to get user input without the user knowing that AHK is involved, for security reasons. Using InputBox, I can set the title to be innocuous but how do I get rid of or change the H icon? I have Resource Hacker, so maybe you can tell me what to change in that to get this effect. Thanks.

[gregster]

I want to get user input without the user knowing that AHK is involved, for security reasons.

Sounds odd and rather like a potential security risk/problem for the user than for you. What is the reason to hide AHK from the user?

Anyway, there is https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Menu.htm#NoIcon and https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_NoTrayIcon.htm

[HBinswanger]

I'm using AHK to run a python script that will manufacture a password for me, and if someone gets my computer, figures out that the code is in AHK (which is dead easy to do, because the same H icon is in the tray--so he just needs to right-click and do "Edit this script") then he will have the key for ALL the passwords I will make using this script. Paranoid? A little.

[HBinswanger]

Thanks for the NoIcon reference. Looks great, but I can't figure out how to use Menu to control InputBox. Is that possible? Or do I have to make a GUI control to get an input field that has no H icon?

[gregster]

I see. Like this?

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#NoTrayIcon	; hides tray icon
Menu, Tray, Icon, Shell32.dll, 174	; also changes Inputbox icon
inputbox, var

https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Menu.htm#Icon:

Changing the tray icon also changes the icon displayed by InputBox, Progress, and subsequently-created GUI windows. Compiled scripts are also affected even if a custom icon was specified at the time of compiling.

[HBinswanger]

Yes!!! That's it. Did you learn this from study of the Help file info? (It's usually excellent but in some cases, like NoIcon, it doesn't give examples).

[JoeWinograd]

First, do this to remove the system tray icon:

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#NoTrayIcon

Then this to put whatever icon you want on the InputBox:

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Menu,Tray,Icon,c:\temp\MyIcon.ico ; make this icon location whatever you want

Obviously, that won't affect the tray icon, because there is no tray icon. But InputBox will use it as its icon. Regards, Joe

[gregster]

Did you learn this from study of the Help file info?

In this case I just looked it up, but probably there was something in the back of my mind that I remembered
But usually I don't care about icons. I rarely use any GUI...

[JoeWinograd]

Ah, gregster got it...our posts crossed. Cheers, Joe