System tray behavior

[Little Nooby]

Hi,

First of all, I'm sorry to ask something which seems really easy but I can't find the right key words to google it.

With Windows 7, when you start a software, it puts an icon in the system tray which permits you to show it on top whenever you click on it. I don't see how to get the same behaviour with my skins, my buttons always start a new instance.

Can someone please tell me how to do it?


Thanks for your help,

Little Nooby


P.S.: I'm new with rainmeter but I already like it very much, more than being beautiful, it's really useful !

[moshi]

English is not my native language. so please forgive if i misinterpret.

you are not talking about a systray icon, but a shortcut you pinned to the taskbar?

short answer: no. Rainmeter does not support giving focus to skins.

longer answer: probably possible to do a workaround with letting the shortcut refresh an invisible skin that sets z-order to on top for a group of skins and then sets them back to normal on the next update. not sure if it's worth the effort, especially as you are probably changing skins frequently.

[Little Nooby]

Oh, too bad.

You interpret well except that this feature works with every software, not only the ones which are pinned to the taskbar but the idea is there.

Your idea is not bad but I think I can do it easier.
I'll code some c++ with the right features that wraps the .exe. Afterwards, rather than changing the link from rainmeter to my code, I'll change the .exe line of my code. It shouldn't be too difficult.

I must say I'm a little disappointed, I thought Rainmeter would be able to handle such a feature.

Thanks for the answer

[moshi]

Oh, too bad.
You interpret well except that this feature works with every software, not only the ones which are pinned to the taskbar but the idea is there.

no, it doesn't.
it works for software that appears as running task in the taskbar.
shortcuts pinned to the taskbar is something different.

[Little Nooby]

Those running are not necessary pinned to the taskbar.

But that's not the point, thanks for the help.