Clicking a systray program's context menu

[Saxtus]

Hello.

I am using the latest EG and I was wondering if it's possible to automate a task of clicking a program's context menu that is hidden in systray.

What I want to do, is to enable a function of a program, that it isn't exposed as command line function, API or any other easy method.
The only way to do it, is to right-click on it's icon in system tray and choose the appropriate option from the context menu.

Is it possible to call that invisibly using windows API or something similar?
It is important to happen transparently, without actually showing the context menu on screen, as I want to do it after receiving a XBMC event, so the screen is going to be fully covered by XBMC playing a video.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. The program is called f.lux and what I want to do is to enable movie mode while playing something in XBMC and disable movie mode afterwards.

[dansafe]

You can not?

[Saxtus]

You can not?

I can not.

[TRIROG1]

Just an idea...

If it supports command line parameters it could be quite simple...

Try running "pathtoprogram"/"programexecutable".exe -?

[Saxtus]

If it supports command line parameters it could be quite simple...

It doesn't.

[WharfRat]

I don't use XBMC or f.lux, but you can still try using Winspector Spy to see which messages are sent to f.lux when you click the systray menu items.

Then you create macros with Window.FindWindow and Window.SendMessage to activate those particular commands.

Winspector Spy is not the friendliest program to use, but it is free, and gives you access to the innards of most programs.
I am not 100% sure if it works with something in the systray, but it might...
It is a good tool to use if you are interested in creating a plugin for some arbitrary program.

WharfRat.

[Saxtus]

That was the first thing I've tried.
But I've failed miserably...

Doesn't matter now, because I just chose to stop using f.lux.
Thank you for your input anyway.