I'm using Xi01, with systray2, and I want to fix something that's been bugging me. The SystrayOnAdd and OnDel commands run for every time a tray icon is added, but i have a two-high tray. The result is that my taskbar is shrunk twice as much as it should be (those commands call !TaskbarShrink and !TaskbarGrow).
Is there a way to make it run those commands only when the width changes (i.e. every other icon)?
I've looked around at all the documentation I can find, but I can't seem to find anything that would let me do this.

I think i'd be able to make it work if I could find a value like SystrayWidth, but that seems to be disabled since I have AutoSize on.

you should be able to do it, but it would require some scripting. define a variable, set it to zero, and on each icon add, add 1 to the variable. then when it gets to 2, make the systray bigger, then zero out the variable again. something like that.

You can employ mzScript for this. Set up your mzScript rc to have a varfile and a scriptfile.. In the varfile have this:



... then in the script have the following (note the pointy brackets in the gotoif lines):



Finally, to call the !Bangs defined in the script, in your systray.rc file (or step.rc if you're not shooting for OTS2 compliance) use these settings:



Basically how this works is it has a variable it uses to judge whether it's an odd or even icon being added.. For odd icons (ie, the 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc) it simply increments the variable and does no resizing. For even icons (ie, the 2nd, 4th, 6th, etc) it decrements the variable back to 0 and resizes the taskbar..

When an icon is removed from the tray it checks the variable - if it's 1 (ie, if an odd icon has been added most recently) then it knows it'll have to resize the taskbar.. if it's 0 (ie, if an even icon has been added most recently) it knows it can just remove the icon and there'll still be the odd icon left so the taskbar doesn't have to be resized.

I haven't tested this but it's pretty rudimentary, I see no reason why it wouldn't work apart from the fact that systray2 seems to sometimes have troubles with the OnAdd/OnDel commands upon recycle.. That's not something that would have anything to do with this scripting though, that's just a shortcoming in systray2. You can get around this by adding this line to your script:



...but if your system tray is hooked into an LsBox that won't work, cause when you re-load the tray it will unhook it from its associated box. As long as your tray isn't mounted in an LsBox you should be good to go with that script though :)

*glares menacingly at inhaler* that was my idea! :( I just didn't take the time to think out the code at all.

Wow that was much more than I was expecting!
Thanks inhaler... now all I have to do is learn to use mzScript...

Very nice script inhaler!

From a glance, *script exec goto end is supposedly *script goto end which could possibly be replaced by *script exit since *script label end is missing.

Also, it seems those bangs do nothing (to flip the value of TrayTicker as you intend):

if TrayTicker equals 0, set TrayTicker to 0.
if TrayTicker equals 1, set TrayTicker to 1.

You mean to flip the 0's and 1's in the gotoif conditions.

Otherwise this looks like an elegant solution, inhaler :)

For some reason I can't get Litestep to find my mzscript file! I feel like the newbie I am...
I tried (what I think is...) the code for NetLoadModule, with no obvious effects on recycle (taskbar covers systray like my previous problem).
I then tried the LoadModule command, and it can't find the module, even though it is exactly where the error message says it is....

you need to do "*mzScriptFile '$path$filename'".