Minimize window to tray and keep it there.. if you need it

I had a guy who wanted to pay me a somewhat ridiculous amount of money to get rid of a teamspeak 3 console window. He wanted it in the tray. I told him he could do it for free and them some... he took me up on the offer

So here is what I did. Some of you might find some uses for this, who knows.

First I set up xyntService to start TeamSpeak3 as a service. The project is located here
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/syste...forumid=1239&exp=0&select=1502084&tid=1502084

Then I copied the .exe and renamed it to ts3service.exe and place it in c: root. Next I made a ts3service.ini file, with this in it located in c: root.

Code:

[Settings]
ServiceName=TS3_Service
CheckProcessSeconds = 30 
[Process0]
CommandLine ="C:\Program Files\Teamspeak3\ts3server_win32.exe"
WorkingDir= "c:\Program Files\Teamspeak3"
PauseStart= 2000 
PauseEnd= 1000 
UserInterface = Yes
Restart = Yes 
UserName = 
Domain =
Password =

Then to install the service it is simple: c:\ts3service.exe -i
Now TeamSpeak3 starts up on reboot and if it is closed, will reopen in 30 seconds.

To get rid of the console window I made an AutoIt script and called the compiled executable "mindows.exe". Here is the code for that

Code:

; uncomment below to fetch the states of target window
; be sure window title is correct
;~ MsgBox(0,'state:',WinGetState('C:\Program Files\Teamspeak3\ts3server_win32.exe'))
;~ Exit

; 7 is open but not active
; 15 is open and active
; 21 is minimized
While 1
	$state = WinGetState('C:\Program Files\Teamspeak3\ts3server_win32.exe')
	If $state = 7 Or $state = 15 Then
		WinSetState('C:\Program Files\Teamspeak3\ts3server_win32.exe','',@SW_MINIMIZE)
	Else
		WinWaitActive('C:\Program Files\Teamspeak3\ts3server_win32.exe')
	EndIf
WEnd

I had this mindow.exe start with common startup directory.

Since he wanted the consold to go to tray, not just to taskbar, I got a copy of TrayIT. It is a nice standalone app. Ran it, told it to startup with system, added the console window. Now when the window becomes active, the mindow.exe minimized it, but trayIt places it in the tray.

http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm

Thats about a 15 minute fix for a problem that has evidentily been bugging him for a year. I should have taken the money, but I haven't the time to mess with that right now.

Maybe someone can benefit from this, who knows.

Sul.