Need Help with Vista systray Clock/Calendar

[grunjac]

I've been trying to find a way to make Vista popup its calendar from the system tray clock through a shortcut or a script file.

Is there a way to call an instance of that calendar popup through vbscript or javascript?

The popup calendar is triggered by a single left click to the system tray clock.

I would really appreciate some insight.

Thanks.

 

[angiesluck]

You can have it displayed on your desktop if you so wish. Just right click on the windows sidebar in system tray bottom right hand corner and click on open. It will then display a faint side bar on right hand side. Click on the plus (+) icon (gadgets should highlight when u hover over it) and it will display several items for you to add to your desktop including calendar and clock. Double click on which ones you want and it will add to desktop. You can remove at anytime buy clicking on the (x)

Hope this is of help to you or others if required

 

[grunjac]

It did occur to me to use the sidebar app but that would be displaying it permanently either on the the desktop or on the sidebar until I'd manually close it.

I'm looking for a way to activate the calendar popup without having to click on the system tray clock area. I've been looking for a windows shell programming method like scripting to do so.

Thanks Angie.

 

[niemiro]

Hello!

This is quite a common question. I am quite busy at the moment, and so I cannot write the script for you right now, but I should be able to maybe help you if you give me 24 hours (maybe less, I shall see)

However, there are three ways:

1: Reverse engineer Windows, and find out the function name. This isn't actually impossible, but it isn't easy either. It also depends on availability, and may involve dropping down far lower than you ever intended (towards Kernal mode) This isn't really a supported mechanism.

2: Use Window Handles. This is probably the best way, but isn't easy. See if you can get this code to work: c# - Windows 7 left click on clock popup - Stack Overflow

It will be tricky to get that code to work. Very tricky.

3: Simulate Windows Key + B > Left arrow key > Enter.

Richard

 

[grunjac]

Hi Richard,

I did come across that code over a month or two ago but didn't give it that much consideration since I wanted more of a scripting solution.

But I'll try to compile it and see if I can get it to work.

Thanks for the tip.

I look forward to whenever you do get to have that script.

Again thanks.